Headline News Archive

2009

April

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• Caveats about your electronic health records. The Obama administration’s plan to spend $19 billion on electronic medical records has generated so much buzz you might think it was the biggest thing

16

• Who got bailout money?. The companies below have received money from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as of April 13, 2009. The Treasury Department's list is mostly organized by

15

• Car title database hits snag in California. Consumers have waited more than 16 years for a comprehensive, nationwide system that would help them avoid being tricked into buying vehicles that were stolen or

14

• Overhauling the student loan industry. With the Obama administration proposing to overhaul the programs a majority of American students use to finance their college education, the student loan industry is

13

• Electronic health records raise doubt. When Dave deBronkart, a tech-savvy kidney cancer survivor, tried to transfer his medical records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to Google Health, a new

09

• Faster unemployment service on the way. For millions of jobless people dependent on unemployment benefits, the wait for help may be getting shorter. After computer system crashes and overwhelmed phone lines

07

• GM and Segway unveil new two-wheeled vehicle. A solution to the world's urban transportation problems could lie in two wheels not four, according to executives for General Motors Corp. and Segway Inc.

• New financial oversight may add new risks. The Obama administration's plan for a sweeping expansion of financial regulations could have unintended consequences that increase the very hazards that these changes are meant

02

• Government may reward car buyers. The road to recovery for U.S. automakers could be jammed with hundreds of thousands of gas-guzzling used cars, which President Obama hopes will be

March

31

• Access to COBRA subsidy may expand in California. Workers laid off by California's smallest businesses have a shot at subsidized healthcare under a bill moving quickly through the Legislature. As part of February's

• Marketers offer relief to consumers hit by job loss. The recession has given the marketing world a twist: ads that boast about helping the newly unemployed. Some of the nation's savviest marketers also have

• Cambios a los planes privados del Medicare. El gobierno de Obama impuso nuevos controles el lunes a los planes privados de seguros que son populares entre las personas mayores en el Medicare,

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• Senator tackles out-of-network insurance issue. Ever wonder how that bill was calculated if you had to pay to see a doctor outside your insurance network? Might be a scam, says

• New push to limit cellphone use while driving. More than 250 bills prohibiting or restricting cellphone use while driving are pending in 42 state legislatures despite disagreement over the risks cellphones pose and the effectiveness

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• Health insurers pull a 'reform' fast one. It might have looked as if real progress toward healthcare reform was made last week when leading insurers proposed ending their long-standing practice of charging

• Home swaps help make vacations affordable. Swapping houses with other would-be vacationers is a way to stay away from home for free. "The word's getting out that exchanging homes is really

• Down but not out: Overcoming job loss. He worked hard. He saved well from the $85,000-a-year job he had as communications director for a nonprofit in Washington. He bought a home he

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• Rechazo de seguros. Si usted está tratando de conseguir un seguro de salud por su cuenta, y tiene cálculos en la vesícula, le negarán la

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• Proposal to vastly expand government oversight. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner plans to propose today a sweeping expansion of federal authority over the financial system, breaking from an era in which

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• 1 in 5 American workers are uninsured. American workers — whose taxes pay for massive government health programs — are getting squeezed like no other group by the nation's health insurance woes. While just

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• Bankruptcy 're-reform' now on table. Cash-strapped families are seeking bankruptcy protection at nearly the same rate and in the same manner as they did before the much-debated 2005 bankruptcy law reform,

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• Federal regulators seize two big credit unions. Federal regulators yesterday seized two large companies that provide critical banking services to the credit union industry after finding that the companies had sustained debilitating

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• Health tax break no more?. Get ready. Washington is again debating how to fix the health care system. And the outcome might affect your wallet. The discussions are just beginning

• How will the Fed's actions affect you?. The Federal Reserve yesterday renewed its commitment to encouraging consumer lending by announcing steps aimed at helping push down interest rates. Here are answers to

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• Team effort in House to reform health care. Three powerful House committee chairmen have agreed to work together on legislation to overhaul the health care system, starting with the view that most employers