Headline News Archive

2018

March

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• Continue to pay insurance premium to avoid Obamacare penalty (Chinese). 不少民眾對「歐記健保」的存留還是不清楚，有人以為新稅法已將歐記健保廢除，因此停止繳交健保費，將因此會收到罰款單。專業人士提醒民眾，歐記健保還存在，但2019年後如民眾沒買健保，不需再繳罰款，至於未來保費多寡的走向，「還很難說」。

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• Wells Fargo faces sanctions for auto insurance payouts. U.S. regulators are preparing to sanction Wells Fargo for receiving commissions on auto insurance policies it helped force on more than half a million drivers,…

• Will employment keep growing? Disabled workers offer a clue. The rise in the number of Americans not working because of disability was so persistent for two decades that some economists began to hypothesize that…

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• Why consumers are increasingly trading privacy for convenience. Consumers have long exchanged data for services they find valuable, like email addresses or location for free WiFi and social media profiles for easier site…

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• UnitedHealthcare to pass drug rebates on to some customers. 全國最大保險公司聯合健保(UnitedHealthcare)宣布，公司將把藥廠的藥品回扣轉給消費者，以補貼服用昂貴處方藥的病患，明年開始執行。

09

• Cigna to acquire pharmacy Express Scripts in $67 billion deal. In the wake of the CVS-Aetna deal, this merger is the latest shoe to drop in a health-care industry in flux. The pharmacy benefit industry…

08

• How to create a freelancer benefits package. There's some effort to increase the safety-net options for freelancers. In 2017, senators and representatives introduced into Congress a bill, titled "Portable Benefits for Independent…

06

• Why driving fewer miles may not lead to lower auto premiums. People who don’t drive much are generally at lower risk for traffic accidents, but they may not always get big discounts from auto insurers, according…

• UnitedHealthcare will pass on rebates from drug companies to consumers. In response to growing consumer frustration over drug prices, UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, said it will stop keeping millions of dollars…

02

• Can telemedicine be both cost efficient and high quality?. For providers like Aetna, telemedicine offers cost savings and increased access to care. But some consumers wonder how their insurance companies make sure telemedicine partners…

• Discussing drug costs with your doctor. When making decisions on whether to take a drug or not because of cost, patients should make sure to share their concerns with their health…

01

• $1B medical insurance fraud? New York City Council investigated. 【新唐人2018年03月02日讯】纽约市将医疗健保公司，帝国蓝十字蓝盾与合作伙伴安保健保公司告上法庭，控告两家保险公司涉嫌医疗保险欺诈，金额高达10亿美元，目前纽约市议会表示将会严肃调查。

• Obamacare crece en popularidad, a pesar de los esfuerzos de Trump por eliminarla. Aunque el presidente Donald Trump se jacta de que “esencialmente hemos derogado el Obamacare”, una nueva encuesta revela que la Ley de Cuidado de Salud…

February

27

• La estupidez de Trumpcare: El gobierno gastará $33 mil millones más para cubrir.... La estupidez de Trumpcare: El gobierno gastará $33 mil millones más para cubrir a 8,9 millones de personas menos Estos genios fiscales en la Casa…

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• How to challenge a nursing home eviction notice. ■ Before a nursing home discharges or transfers a patient who wants to stay in the home, it must send a written discharge notice to…

• Complaints about nursing home evictions rise, and regulators take note. Discharges and evictions have been the top-ranking category of grievances brought to state long-term care ombudsman programs, the ombudsman agencies say. While nursing homes can…

• Airbnb anuncia nueva categoría para propiedades certificadas. El servicio en línea de alquileres vacacionales, Airbnb, anunció el jueves el nuevo programa Plus, en el que las propiedades enlistadas habrán sido certificadas por…

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• Préstamos bancarios en los hospitales, una práctica que vulnera a los pacientes. En mayo pasado, Laura Cameron, embarazada de tres meses, tropezó y cayó en un estacionamiento, y terminó en una sala de emergencias. Estaba boca arriba,…

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• Bank loans signed in the hospital leave patients vulnerable. Laura Cameron, three months pregnant, tripped and fell in a parking lot and landed in the emergency room in May. She was flat on her…

• Zero-down home loans are back. Be very leery. The notion of buying a home with no money down is understandably alluring. But what looks sexy in a lender’s advertisement does not always translate…

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• Mick Mulvaney’s destroying the CFPB — and that’s just what Trump wants. Mick Mulvaney warned us that it was coming. After all, in 2014 he called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent government agency he now temporarily…

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• Aumento de precios suscita temores de inflación en EEUU. El reciente aumento de los precios al consumidor en Estados Unidos ha despertado temores de un repunte de la inflación.

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• California eyes Aetna for denying coverage without medical review. California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at…

• Insurer limited disability plan for doctor who took HIV-prevention drug. Three years ago, Dr. Philip J. Cheng, a urology resident at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, nicked himself while preparing an HIV-positive patient for surgery.

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• Aetna denied treatment without a doctor reviewing the medical records (Chinese). (本報記者)美國保險巨頭安泰(Aetna)一名前醫療主任在宣誓供詞中承認，從未看過病人記錄便決定是否批准有關治療，加州保險局宣布對安泰展開調查。