HHS Official: Administration Changed Name Of Obamacare ‘Exchanges’ Because ‘Marketplaces’ Is Better In Spanish

’12 million of the people eligible [for Obamacare] speak Spanish’

 The Obama administration has stopped using the word “exchanges” to describe a feature of the Obamacare health care overhaul law because it does not translate well into Spanish, a Department of Health and Human Services official explained Thursday.

“We’re going to use the word ‘marketplace’ because it actually makes sense to people. ‘Exchange’ doesn’t translate to anything in Spanish, but ‘marketplace’ does,” Anton Gunn, HHS director of external affairs said during a Families USA conference in Washington, D.C., according to The Hill.

According to Gunn, the department wants to communicate effectively about the Affordable Care Act with Spanish-speaking Americans.
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