ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s new online health insurance marketplace has been beset with technical difficulties – and that’s just in the English language. For Spanish-speaking residents, the site is inaccessible, one lawmaker complained Wednesday.
Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, D-Montgomery, said the Latino community’s access to the information and services offered through Maryland Health Connection is inadequate. The website and full online application are currently only available in English, although printable forms in Spanish can be downloaded through the site.
Rebecca Pearce, executive director of Maryland Health Benefit Exchange — the state agency managing the online marketplace that is part of the federal Affordable Care Act — said she was unable to give an exact date when the Spanish application would go online.
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3 comments:
Let them go back to their own countries! Try getting away with this in any other country--you don't speak their language? Tough s**t ! You learn or you leave.
I AGREE.......Get rid of them all. The country would save lots of money in the long run. English is the language.
I got news for whomever is in charge of this fiasco. 9 out of 10 of those even remotely interesting in enrolling who English is their only language aren't understanding it.
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