Headline News Archive

2018

November

05

• How to take charge of your medical care. Walking into a doctor's office or hospital can be intimidating. But when you go armed with the right tools and frame of mind, you

02

• Study finds link between cellphones and brain cancer. The results apply only to male rats and involve radio frequencies long out of routine use.

• Americans aren't financially healthy despite booming economy. Unemployment is low and the economy is growing at a healthy pace, but about three-quarters of Americans have financial problems, according to a survey released

01

• Untangling coverage choices under Obama health law. Despite efforts by President Trump and congressional Republicans to hobble the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance marketplace it created is still standing. When open

October

30

• A sense of alarm as rural hospitals keep closing. The potential health and economic consequences of a trend associated with states that have turned down Medicaid expansion.

27

• Medical/federal health insurance fees have reduced the choice of physicians and prescription drugs (Chinese). 聯邦健保市場11月1日將開始受理申請明年的保險計畫，儘管消費者將面臨更多的保險選擇，部分保險公司也降低了2019年的保費，但許多消費者仍感到不理想，因為他們將無法保證選到原先的醫師和處方藥。

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• Graveyard deals: The hidden costs of burial. Experts warn some interment fees can exceed the cost of the cemetery plots. Many consumers are shocked to discover that they owe thousands of dollars

• Trump hará anuncio sobre costo de medicamentos recetados. A menos de dos semanas de las elecciones legislativas, el presidente Donald Trump planea hacer un anuncio sobre el costo de los medicamentos recetados.

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• Blue-collar jobs are booming, just not for women. Well-paying jobs that don’t require a college degree are multiplying at the fastest rate in three decades, offering more Americans a

• When Sears flourished, so did workers. At Amazon, it's complicated.. Half a century ago, a typical Sears salesman could walk out of the store at retirement with a nest egg worth well over a million

23

• How to plan for retirement when there is a significant age gap. “Couples with big age differences may need to plan for different retirement dates and life expectancies — with related implications for portfolio-withdrawal strategies, asset

22

• Advice from health care's power users. When you’re sick, the health care system can be scary and confusing. But in a recent survey, seriously ill Americans shared some hard-won

• The physical toll of workplace pregnancy discrimination. Women in strenuous jobs lost their pregnancies after employers denied their requests for light duty, even ignoring doctors’ notes, an investigation by The New

21

• Expansión de seguro de salud es tema electoral en EEUU. Durante casi una década, la oposición a los programas de asistencia médica del expresidente Barack Obama ha sido un

18

• An A.I. (artificial intelligence) glossary. The last six years have witnessed breakthroughs in everything from self-driving cars to algorithms that can detect diseases, and social networks like Twitter that rely

• Prudential Financial no longer needs federal oversight. The Trump administration took another major step toward softening the regulatory burdens faced by big financial firms, finding that mega insurer Prudential Financial no longer

13

• What you need to know for smooth flying. If you’re planning a plane trip in the near future you should know your rights. Here are the basics, as detailed in a

11

• Hurricane Michael prompts Freddic Mac to issue relief policies. In areas where the Federal Emergency Management Agency has yet to make individual assistance available, mortgage servicers are encouraged to leverage Freddie Mac’s

• Travelers teams up with Amazon to sell home security kits. Travelers, one of the country's largest insurance companies, announced that it had launched an Amazon storefront where its customers can buy discounted home security

• Experian credit freeze flaw may have revealed your PIN to fraudsters. The credit bureau’s process to retrieve a PIN that safeguards a frozen Experian credit report had a security defect, making it easier for

09

• Obamacare premiums come down but could have been even lower. In some states average premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will be lower next year than in 2018. But in every state, they would be even

September

27

• Aguas cálidas en Atlántico generan fuertes huracanes. Una mayor temperatura en las aguas del océano Atlántico provocaron un número inusualmente alto de huracanes de categorí

26

• Instagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse.. Instagram is known for its celebrity posts and photos of enviable vacations. But it has also become a sizable open marketplace for advertising illegal drugs.

25

• An insurance company wants your Fitbit data. Life insurance company John Hancock made a splash last week with the news that soon all of its policies would come bundled with the option

21

• Flood damage in the Carolinas is widespread--Insurance coverage isn't. Flood damage from Hurricane Florence will be extensive, but in North Carolina many don't have flood insurance. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey discusses