Headline News Archive

2018

July

03

• A woman’s leg was caught and she begged for no ambulance. When a 45-year-old woman’s leg became caught in the gap between an Orange Line train and the platform Friday afternoon, she was in

• Juez extiende alojamiento para evacuados puertorriqueños. Casi 950 familias puertorriqueñas alojadas en hoteles de Estados Unidos luego del huracán María que devastó la isla el

02

• States fill holes Washington is making in Affordable Care Act. Several states are erecting barriers against rules the Trump administration is writing to promote short-term health plans that are comparatively inexpensive because they lack benefits

June

30

• Kentucky’s requirement that Medicaid recipients must work is blocked by a federal judge (Chinese). 一位聯邦地區法官29日封殺了肯塔基州對醫療補助計畫(Medicaid)參加者必須工作的規定，對鼓勵各州要求有能力的白卡(Medicaid)參加者必須工作的川普政府是個沉重打擊。

29

• Amazon to buy online pharmacy, jumping into drug business. In the world of health care, PillPack, an online pharmacy, is a pretty small player. Its work force of 1,000 or so people pales in comparison

25

• Retiring with debt? More Americans are.. Carrying a boatload of debt, facing job cuts and dealing with bad health news make it tougher to pay the bills in retirement than many

21

• How a few people took Equifax to court over Its data breach and won. Christina Bernstein’s check finally arrived last week: $7,440 from Equifax for her trouble. She was one of more than 145 million Americans whose financial information

20

• Warren announces hold on Trump’s CFPB nomination, citing border policy. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said yesterday that she will put a hold on the nomination of Kathy Kraninger to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

18

• Trump taps budget aide to head Consumer Bureau. The White House on Saturday said it would nominate Kathy Kraninger, a White House budget official, to serve as the next director of the Consumer

• Is the gig economy a myth?. A new survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that, in 2017, the share of workers in “alternative employment arrangements” (gig jobs and

16

• Credit freezes will soon be free for everyone. Starting this fall, the big three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — will be required to let you freeze your credit file

12

• Air ambulances leave patients with $45,000 bills. The air-ambulance industry says reimbursements from U.S. government health programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, don’t cover their expenses. The companies say they

11

• Five ways Mulvaney is cracking down on his own agency. The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) often says that the only reason he hasn't burned the agency down is because

09

• Trump's consumer agency chief looks to shut down complaint database. The Trump administration may shut down a federal database of consumer complaints about the financial-services industry. Banks think that’s a swell idea. &ldquo

08

• Here’s the bible on navigating social security. Social Security and retirement go together like peanut butter and jelly — many people just can’t have one without the other. Yet when

• Recounting ‘horror stories’ over Guitar Center’s warranties. Whether to buy a warranty is, of course, a perennial question, and not just for musicians. I rank it up there with conundrums like buying

07

• Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board. Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board, days after some of its members criticized

06

• States ask CFPB to keep complaints database public. Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general are asking the CFPB to keep its consumer complaint database open to the public. State law enforcers risk losing a

05

• EEUU: Medicare se quedará sin dinero antes de los previsto. El Medicare se quedará sin dinero más pronto de lo que se había previsto anteriormente, y los problemas financieros del

04

• The U.N. says Trump is making life harder for the poor. A top human rights investigator is criticizing the United States for failing the poor. Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human

• Deadline looms for consumer complaint database public weigh in. Should consumers, businesses, and others be able to read complaints people have shared about financial services companies? If you have an opinion, you have until

01

• Why some patients getting drugmakers' help are paying more. Until recently payments by the drug company helped Kristen Catton save money on her medical out-of-pocket expenses, because they counted toward her family's $8,800 annual

May

31

• La telemedicina, buen recurso para los ancianos. Todas las mañanas Sidney Kramer, de 92 años, se coloca un medidor de presión en su brazo y se pesa,

30

• You’ll be able to freeze your credit for free — but that won’t end ID theft. Last week, a new law torched some of the banking rules that were put in place after the financial crisis to protect us. But also

24

• Seniors are paying more for generics though drug prices haven't increased. Here's a riddle about drug pricing to ask our healthcare administrators, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar: Since the prices of generic