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Here’s that Rx refill you didn’t order

Wednesday, October 24, 2012
By | Laura Etherton
Health Care Policy Analyst

Is your pharmacy refilling your prescription without your knowledge or approval, and billing your insurance company for the cost? If so, it’s the latest example of waste we shouldn't tolerate in our health care system.

Industry lobbyists pre-launch 2013 assault on financial reform and other financial follies

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Consumer Program Director

(UPDATED (AGAIN)) Industry lobbyists, under cover of a "bi-partisan" center, have pre-launched their 2013 assault on financial reform. Meanwhile, as the FTC dings fake debt collectors, the CFPB heads to Seattle to presumably announce its authority to supervise or examine "larger" debt collectors. Read more for news of these and other financial follies.

Five Factors Will Determine Whether TIFIA Will Fund Transit

Tuesday, October 16, 2012
By | Phineas Baxandall
Senior Analyst for Tax & Budget Policy

"TIFIA," the federal transportation loan program was super sized in the recent transportation law. New rules make the program even more of a slush fund for private toll roads, while others provide possibility for long-overdue public transit expansion. This blog appeared in slightly condensed form at StreetsBlog.

Tips for fixing credit report errors yourself (don't ever use a credit repair doctor)

Friday, October 12, 2012
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Consumer Program Director

Fox Business reporter Kelly Dilworth has a detailed "how-to" called "10 surefire steps to get errors off your credit reports." Don't go to a credit repair doctor, don't read a bunch of wacky advice on self-help websites, don't do any of that, Do what she says.

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