Headline News Archive

2022

April

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• Aging in place easier with smart home technology. Technology helps all homeowners, but especially seniors, by automating “things that are a pain or difficult to do,” says Michael Miller, author of

March

31

• New government site to help Americans find Covid antiviral pills. During his State of the Union address, President Biden promised to establish a “test-to-treat” program “so people can get tested at a

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• Estudio: Vacuna de Pfizer contra COVID da protección a niños. La vacuna contra el COVID-19 desarrollada por Pfizer brindó una fuerte protección a niños de 5 años en adelante

February

08

• Equifax breach settlement: Money for some, free monitoring for all. Equifax will pay up to $425 million in restitution to those directly impacted by the massive data breach of the credit bureau in 2017. A federal court

January

27

• Experian, Equifax, TransUnion rarely act on credit file complaints, report says. If you spot a mistake on your credit report and contact the credit bureau, there’s a good chance nothing will happen. Equifax, Experian,

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• Legisladores de California debaten plan de salud universal. Los legisladores en California comienzan el martes a debatir si crearán el primer sistema de salud universal en Estados Unidos, en una medida

2021

December

30

• Ban on surprise medical bills starts this week. If you are having a medical emergency and go to an urgent care center or emergency room, you can’t be charged more than

27

• Many home insurance premiums are rising. Across the country, homeowners renewing their policies are discovering that rising material costs, supply chain disruptions and climate change are combining to drive premiums up

November

20

• Ventajas y desventajas de Medicare Advantage. Estos planes populares pueden tener riesgos ocultos. Esto es lo hay que saber.

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• How Congress plans to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs. Americans are sick and tired of paying the highest prices in the world for their medications. Fortunately, the House of Representatives recently unveiled the text

October

19

• Hearing aids without a prescription or an exam?. A long-awaited Food and Drug Administration proposal would allow millions of consumers to buy over-the-counter hearing aids in stores or online without a prescription or

September

21

• Insurers restore deductibles, co-pays leaving patients with big bills. In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatment, waiving co-pays and

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• HHS releases plan to lower drug prices. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released a comprehensive plan to lower drug prices. The Drug Pricing Plan is part of a broader

August

30

• The financial price for choosing not to get vaccinated. You could lose your job as more employers require workers to get vaccinated. If you’re opposed to being vaccinated, your employer-provided health insurance

July

25

• Health Care For Older Immigrants Sees Momentum Among States. Most mornings, 62-year-old Maria Elena Estamilla wakes up with pelvic pain and dread that she faces the same fate as her mother and grandmother: fatal

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• EEUU: Seguro de salud para inmigrantes cobra fuerza. Illinois y otros estados gobernados por los demócratas están ampliando su seguro de salud para incluir a inmigrantes adultos, incluso ancianos,

June

• Cómo elegir la cantidad correcta de seguro de vida. La pandemia está provocando que más estadounidenses compren cobertura. Te mostramos cómo hacerlo de forma asequible.

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• Outcry forces UnitedHealthcare to delay plans to deny some ER coverage. In the face of growing opposition from hospital and doctors groups, UnitedHealthcare said it would delay a plan to stop paying for emergency room visits

17

• ‘Obamacare’ survives: Supreme Court dismisses big challenge. The Supreme Court, though increasingly conservative in makeup, rejected the latest major Republican-led effort to kill the national health care law known as “Obamacare

• Corte Suprema rechaza tercera impugnación a ley “Obamacare”. La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, aunque cada vez más conservadora en su conformación, rechazó el jueves el intento m

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• Inmigrantes contribuyen más en las primas de seguros privados de lo que reciben en beneficios. Entre aquellos en desacuerdo con la estancia de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos, muchos afirman que este sector agota los recursos de atención

May

19

• Los pacientes ya pueden acceder a sus registros médicos en línea, aunque es posible que no los comprendan. Una nueva normativa federal facilita la obtención de los resultados de las pruebas y el registro de su médico sobre su

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• Los 21 estados que pondrán fin a los beneficios extra al seguro del desempleo del Plan de Rescate Americano. Ya son 21 los estados que dejarán de entregar beneficios de desempleo de $300 semanales, para que los estadounidenses regresen a trabajar a las nuevas

• Postpandemia: ¿Y si la gente no quiere volver a su trabajo?. Un factor fuera de todo pronóstico podría entorpecer la vuelta a la normalidad una vez superada la pandemia del coronavirus en

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• One of America's largest hospital chains has been suing thousands of patients during the pandemic. As the coronavirus spiked in Missouri last fall, a wave of cases hit a nursing home in the state's rural heartland. Robin Bull, a