News

2021

May

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• Consumer Action INSIDER - June 2021. The June 2021 issue of INSIDER brings you stories about our recent activities and publications, including the most recent Consumer Action News issue, about liability insurance, and a new webinar explaining the rise of "contactless payment" methods due to the pandemic. Regular features include Hotline Chronicles, CFPB Watch and new additions to our Class Action Database.

• Consumer Action INSIDER - June 2021. The June 2021 issue of INSIDER brings you stories about our recent activities and publications, including the most recent Consumer Action News issue, about liability insurance, and a new webinar explaining the rise of "contactless payment" methods due to the pandemic. Regular features include Hotline Chronicles, CFPB Watch and new additions to our Class Action Database.

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• Los pacientes ya pueden acceder a sus registros médicos en línea, aunque es posible que no los comprendan. Una nueva normativa federal facilita la obtención de los resultados de las pruebas y el registro de su médico sobre su salud. Un inconveniente: Puede que usted no entienda lo que

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• Los 21 estados que pondrán fin a los beneficios extra al seguro del desempleo del Plan de Rescate Americano. Ya son 21 los estados que dejarán de entregar beneficios de desempleo de $300 semanales, para que los estadounidenses regresen a trabajar a las nuevas plazas que se están requiriendo con el regreso

• Postpandemia: ¿Y si la gente no quiere volver a su trabajo?. Un factor fuera de todo pronóstico podría entorpecer la vuelta a la normalidad una vez superada la pandemia del coronavirus en Estados Unidos: Mucha gente no quiere volver a los trabajos

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• One of America's largest hospital chains has been suing thousands of patients during the pandemic. As the coronavirus spiked in Missouri last fall, a wave of cases hit a nursing home in the state's rural heartland. Robin Bull, a part-time nurse, remembered an ambulance "coming and going constantly

• Cadena de hospitales demandó a 19 mil pacientes durante la pandemia. Una de las mayores cadenas de hospitales de EE.UU., Community Health Systems (CHS), ha presentado unas 19.000 demandas contra pacientes por facturas impagadas durante la pandemia, informó la cadena de televisión CNN.

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• California podría ser el primer estado que permita agregar a los padres adultos a los planes de salud. Cuando la madre de Laura Chávez, de 74 años, necesitó realizarse una cirugía ocular, el mes pasado, su hija pagó en efectivo por el procedimiento. ¿El costo? $15.000,

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• Reopening plans and mask mandates for all 50 states. All across the country, mask mandates are easing, restrictions are lifting and many states have gone back to business as usual. It appears much of the country will be open with few restrictions in the

• Use this simple system to organize medical reimbursements. Health insurance coverage is confusing. You may only be reimbursed a fraction of your out-of-pocket costs, and filing for reimbursements is monotonous work. But if you can get organized and create a system, it really

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• Therapy on aisle 7: Pharmacies enter the mental health market. Since January CVS has added licensed clinical social workers trained in cognitive behavioral therapy to 13 locations in the Houston, Philadelphia and Tampa metro areas. The providers will offer mental health assessments, referrals and counseling either

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• All about liability insurance. The most valuable portion of your insurance policy may be the liability coverage, which can protect you from financial ruin. In our latest issue of Consumer Action News, we explain the coverage that kicks in

• The weight-loss industry is coming for you post-lockdown. You can consume a lot of the weight loss industry's marketing without ever hearing the words “weight” or “diet” or “calories.” The diet industry has gotten impressively subtle,

• What to know about the surge in state antiabortion bills. In Oklahoma and Idaho, state lawmakers just banned most abortions at the first sign of a fetal heartbeat. In Montana, providers can no longer perform abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, while abortion pills, available via

• What Americans should know about COVID testing during travel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said fully vaccinated people can travel with less risk to their health and don’t need to get tested before or after travel, unless their destination

• Employers must prepare for Covid’s mental health fallout. Companies are slowly calling staff back to the office. They bring with them the emotional scars of a year filled with fear, isolation and sorrow.

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• MDMA reaches next step toward approval for PTSD treatment. In an important step toward medical approval, MDMA, the illegal drug popularly known as Ecstasy or Molly, was shown to bring relief to those suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder when paired with talk therapy.

• FDA appears poised to authorize vaccine for adolescents. The Food and Drug Administration is expected by next week to grant expanded emergency use authorization to allow children as young as 12 to receive the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and German firm BioNTech, according

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• The robot surgeon will see you now. Using many of the same technologies that underpin self-driving cars, autonomous drones and warehouse robots, researchers are working to automate surgical robots too. These methods are still a long way from

April

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• Number of young people hospitalized with Covid-19 up since March. Public health experts say the outbreak—driven by the B.1.1.7 variant of the virus, which is more contagious and more severe—is spreading rapidly in younger age groups.