Headline News Archive

2018

February

27

• La estupidez de Trumpcare: El gobierno gastará $33 mil millones más para cubrir.... La estupidez de Trumpcare: El gobierno gastará $33 mil millones más para cubrir a 8,9 millones de personas menos Estos genios fiscales en la Casa…

22

• How to challenge a nursing home eviction notice. ■ Before a nursing home discharges or transfers a patient who wants to stay in the home, it must send a written discharge notice to…

• Complaints about nursing home evictions rise, and regulators take note. Discharges and evictions have been the top-ranking category of grievances brought to state long-term care ombudsman programs, the ombudsman agencies say. While nursing homes can…

• Airbnb anuncia nueva categoría para propiedades certificadas. El servicio en línea de alquileres vacacionales, Airbnb, anunció el jueves el nuevo programa Plus, en el que las propiedades enlistadas habrán sido certificadas por…

21

• Préstamos bancarios en los hospitales, una práctica que vulnera a los pacientes. En mayo pasado, Laura Cameron, embarazada de tres meses, tropezó y cayó en un estacionamiento, y terminó en una sala de emergencias. Estaba boca arriba,…

20

• Bank loans signed in the hospital leave patients vulnerable. Laura Cameron, three months pregnant, tripped and fell in a parking lot and landed in the emergency room in May. She was flat on her…

• Zero-down home loans are back. Be very leery. The notion of buying a home with no money down is understandably alluring. But what looks sexy in a lender’s advertisement does not always translate…

17

• Mick Mulvaney’s destroying the CFPB — and that’s just what Trump wants. Mick Mulvaney warned us that it was coming. After all, in 2014 he called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent government agency he now temporarily…

14

• Aumento de precios suscita temores de inflación en EEUU. El reciente aumento de los precios al consumidor en Estados Unidos ha despertado temores de un repunte de la inflación.

13

• California eyes Aetna for denying coverage without medical review. California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at…

• Insurer limited disability plan for doctor who took HIV-prevention drug. Three years ago, Dr. Philip J. Cheng, a urology resident at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, nicked himself while preparing an HIV-positive patient for surgery.

12

• Aetna denied treatment without a doctor reviewing the medical records (Chinese). (本報記者)美國保險巨頭安泰(Aetna)一名前醫療主任在宣誓供詞中承認，從未看過病人記錄便決定是否批准有關治療，加州保險局宣布對安泰展開調查。

• Lock and unlock your credit report for free. Equifax is fighting to regain consumer trust, following one of the largest and most damaging data breaches in history, when the credit reporting giant unwittingly…

08

• Auto insurance rates have skyrocketed — in ways that are wildly unfair. Auto insurance rates have increased at more than twice the rate of inflation recently, with premiums hitting a national average of $1,427, an online marketplace…

• How three American companies might undo decades of health-care policy. Last week, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced they would form an independent health-care company to serve their combined 1.2 million employees. In trying…

07

• Out-of-pocket health-care costs likely to take half of Social Security. A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found out-of-pocket health-care costs for Medicare beneficiaries are likely to take up half of their average…

• AP: Casi 11,8 millones se inscriben para Obamacare en 2018. La ley de cuidados de salud del expresidente Barack Obama atrajo casi 11,8 millones de inscripciones para 2018, a pesar de los esfuerzos de los…

06

• CFPB said to be letting Equifax off the hook for data breach. The down-is-up world of the Trump administration grew even battier Monday amid reports that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scaling back its investigation into…

• Democrats lash out at CFPB after it drops Equifax probe. Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a…

05

• Yes, you can find a financial planner even if you’re not rich. An ugly fact of the financial advice industry has generally been this: There are precious few practitioners who will work with people who are not…

• Trump rechaza sanidad universal al citar sistema "quebrado" del Reino Unido. El presidente, Donald Trump, criticó hoy a los demócratas por proponer una sanidad pública de cobertura universal con "grandes subidas de impuestos", a la vez…

01

• New service, same old Equifax: Credit locking app freezes up. Equifax introduced a free consumer service Wednesday that allows people to lock access to their credit files from a mobile phone. It didn’t work. Equifax…

• U.S. appeals court upholds independence of consumer watchdog. A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutional and that its director can be fired…

• 6 formas sorprendentes de ahorrar dinero en el 2018. Si estás pagando de más o pasas por alto los costos que reducen tus ahorros, aquí te mostramos cómo evitar esas fugas de dinero ¿Cuándo…

January

31

• Equifax extends free credit freezes. Equifax has extended its offer of free credit freezes through June 30. Equifax made freezes free late last year in the wake of a data…