Filed under: Insurance, Health, Insurance-health
In 2002, voters of California passed a law mandating that HMOs, which serve nearly 21 million people in California, offer more timely access to medical care. Now the California Department of Managed Health Care finally is ready to implement those new rules, to be unveiled Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a story in today’s Los Angeles Times. California says it is the first state to set time standards for HMOs.
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Filed under: Home, Real Estate, Retire, Health, Retirement advice
By the year 2050, the U.S. Census figures there will be some 82 million Americans 65 and older living in this country — an impressive 137% increase from now.
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Filed under: Budgets, College, Family Money
Yesterday was my first day of classes for the semester and with that came the syllabus for one class with a list of three books I needed. On Amazon, the three titles would have cost me a total of $103.52.
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Filed under: Budgets, Retire, Saving Money, Insurance-life
So you bought a $4 latte for the fourth time this week. Or maybe you forgot to bring the coupon for your kid’s favorite cereal to the grocery store. Most of us make money mistakes all the time (even personal finance bloggers are no exception!), but some of them matter more than others. We here at WalletPop interviewed experts in saving, spending, borrowing and investing to find out the biggest mistakes people make when it comes to their hard-earned money. Thousands of people will make these very mistakes in 2010. Just don’t be one of them. (Continue the story…)
Filed under: Insurance, Health, Insurance-health
In 2002, voters of California passed a law mandating that HMOs, which serve nearly 21 million people in California, offer more timely access to medical care. Now the California Department of Managed Health Care finally is ready to implement those new rules, to be unveiled Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a story in today’s Los Angeles Times. California says it is the first state to set time standards for HMOs.
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Filed under: Debt, Real Estate, Mortgages, Refinancing
The landscape of refinancing has changed dramatically in recent months, but the reason for doing it remains largely the same. “It was about the dollars,” says Owen Metz, 26, of Plymouth, Minn., who dropped his monthly payments by $150 when he refinanced earlier this month. “Anytime I can save money now — it’s almost a no-brainer.”
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Filed under: Credit, Debt, Credit cards, Mortgages
While people used to always pay their mortgage first before other bills, priorities have definitely changed for some. Maintaining car payments appears to be the first priority, with credit cards second and mortgages last. That’s the results of the third quarter trend data from TransUnion. The 60-day delinquency national average for auto loans was 0.81%. Credit cards national 90-day delinquency average was just a bit higher at 1.10%. Mortgages national 60-day delinquency rate was six times higher at 6.25%
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Filed under: Debt, Extracurriculars
A recent study by a Cornell graduate student found that, contrary to what common sense would suggest, online poker players win less money when they win more hands.
Sociology doctoral student Kyle Siler analyzed 27 million online hands of six-player no-limits Texas Hold’em and found that those who win multiple times usually win smaller pots, and this causes them to undervalue the damage caused by the occasional, bigger losses.
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Filed under: College, Debt, The Dolans, Video
Ken and Daria Dolan, America’s first family of personal finance, answer your questions every Friday.
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Filed under: Banks
Thieves don’t need sticky fingers anymore to take your hard-earned cash. They’re getting your ATM to spit it out for them. And they’re doing it a rate that might make hiding your loot under the mattress is the smartest move you can make.
ATM skimming, in which crooks gain access to the PIN encoded on the magnetic stripe of your debit or credit card and withdraw at will, is going to be one of the top forms of fraud this year, according to a BankInfoSecurity report published in Consumer Reports. (Continue the story…)