Headline News Archive

2008

July

21

• Trying to save by paying docs more. Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around

20

• Banks responsible for the loss of trust. By his own admission, Simi Valley resident Vince Asturi knew he had nothing to worry about when federal authorities took over IndyMac Bank. Asturi, 78, and

17

• Individual health policies leave many behind. Soon after a pediatrician noted in his medical records that 5-year-old Logan Swaim was short for his age, his mother, Theresa, tried to buy health

15

• Pay-as-you-drive auto insurance. An alliance of insurance companies and environmentalists wants to bring a new kind of mileage-based auto insurance to California and charge motorists only for the

07

• Doctors press Senate to undo Medicare cuts. Congress returns to work this week with Medicare high on the agenda and Senate Republicans under pressure after a barrage of radio and television advertisements

June

28

• Keep watch on your credit report—free. If you're thinking about buying a home or refinancing a mortgage, you may want to avail yourself of a forthcoming free service that could help

26

• Beware, your credit score may have fallen. Just as Americans grow more reliant on credit cards to help pay monthly bills, they're being hit with a one-two punch: Card companies are reducing

23

• Grads caught in health plan limbo get creative. This year, 1.4 million graduates are tossing their mortarboard caps into the sky and receiving bachelor's degrees. Almost immediately, many will face another rite of passage:

17

• Prescriptions for change in health care. From Capitol Hill to K Street, Washington is gearing up for another run at health-care reform. The Congressional Budget Office has nearly doubled its health

15

• Starting your first job?. To the hundreds of thousands of young people who have landed entry-level jobs that come with health insurance and a retirement plan, I offer my

• Steps to take for surviving job loss. Unemployment can strike anywhere, any time. And as we see right now, it's striking more often. The national unemployment rate in May had its biggest

12

• Health credit cards add insult to injury. High-interest credit-card debt is even hurting consumers where they go to get rid of the pain: The hospital, doctor's office and dentist's chair. Lenders like

11

• Urge educación financiera. La crisis inmobiliaria ha puesto de manifiesto la urgencia de promover la educación financiera entre la comunidad hispana y el tema de cómo

08

• Getting help with health insurance problems. Every week, I get at least a dozen queries about health insurance from readers like these: "Dear Lisa, "My husband is scheduled for a colonoscopy . . . .

06

• Latinos no llegan a fin de mes. El 28 por ciento de los latinos, cerca de 6,6 millones de personas, admite llegar con dificultad a final de mes, lo que les lleva a aplazar

04

• Direcciones de internet más peligrosas. Las empresas que asignan dominios en la inscripción de direcciones en la internet están reduciendo las medidas de seguridad cuando asignan nombre en

03

• Protege tus documentos más preciados. Seguro que tienes algún amigo o has escuchado de alguien que perdió con el huracán sus fotos más queridas, documentos, listas de

• Tu plan familiar para desastres. La temporada de huracanas ya comenzó y es el momento de defininir un plan sencillo de lo que debes hacer tú y tu familia en

May

27

• No más recortes del Fed. Muchas veces el Banco de Reserva Federal es ambiguo en lo que se refiere al rumbo de la economía, pro ahora las cosas no

• Cómo traspasar un crédito. Ser "cofirmante" te obliga A veces resulta difícil decir “no” cuando nos piden ser cofirmantes, sobre todo si se trata de un familiar o

26

• 'Delay insurance' saves traveler hassles. Summer travelers worried about getting stranded at an airport because of storms, missed connections and canceled flights have new ways to protect themselves -- for

25

• Improve your credit report. Some experts say that you should close old credit cards that you're not using very often. That can be a good idea if you're tempted

19

• Need a better mortgage? Call Uncle Sam. On Capitol Hill this week, lawmakers are set to continue to grapple with the best response to the rising tide of home foreclosures. But the

15

• ¡Me robaron la identidad!. ¿Cómo le robaron su información? ¡Es difícil saberlo! Hoy día, los delincuentes usan diversos métodos. Estos son algunos de los

12

• Reclamos por los tornados. Los tornados ocurridos en Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri y algunas zonas del estado de Georgia recientemente, son un recordatorio de lo destructivos y mortales que pueden