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Regardless of political beliefs, everyone can agree that the healthcare.gov website got off to a rocky start, including when it came to its foreign language pages. As I was reading this article about the site’s Spanish version being delayed, I was struck by something interviewee Miriam Lopez was quoted as saying: “’if I can’t apply online… I might call, or I might go to the places that they have for help….’”  The article’s author went on to explain that Lopez had found these

Go ahead – visit http://www.healthcare.gov and take a look.  Upper right hand corner gives you the español option. Of the 30 million who will now enter the national healthcare system, about 9 million of them do not speak English as a first language. (And these 9 million, may we remind you, are legal immigrants in the United States.)  But not all of them are Spanish speakers.  What happens to those for whom English or Spanish is simply not enough of an option to make access cl