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04-07-2006, 07:32 PM #1
DID ANYONE HEAR ABOUT THIS?
ON THE NEWS IN CHARLOTTE THIS PAST WEEKEND THEY HAD A SURVEY IN WHICH THE LATINOS SURVEYED STATED THAT THEY WANTED DOCTORS THAT SPOKE SPANISH BUT DID NOT WANT SPANISH DOCTORS. IF THEY WANT SPANISH SPEAKING DOCTORS MAYBE THEY SHOULD GO TO MEXICO. IF ANYONE ELSE SAW THIS PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
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04-07-2006, 08:16 PM #2
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hey krp0614
PLEASE DON'T USE ALL CAPS!
welcome to the forums and please write nicely, all caps are annoying to others.
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04-07-2006, 08:22 PM #3
Welcome!
they DON'T want Spanish doctors? Isn't that being kinda RACIST???
p.s., I use to do the same thing"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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04-07-2006, 08:57 PM #4
Here's an interesting story regarding health coverage being purchased and then payment for an operation being denied because the couple had not disclosed the husband's pre-existing condition. Now they have a lawyer to sue Blue Cross California. The extensive comments are almost as interesting as the article itself.
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/20 ... becomi.php
Language Becoming an Issue for Health Insurers
Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2006
When she learned the cost of an operation that opened her husband’s clogged arteries last fall, Maria Rodriguez was glad she had signed the couple up for health coverage several weeks earlier.
But then Blue Cross of California said Raudel Rodriguez, a 53-year-old self-employed scrap-metal hauler, had failed to disclose preexisting conditions—including chest pain—that made him uninsurable. The company canceled his coverage, returned $1,700 in premiums and left the couple instead with a $130,000 hospital bill.
The Rodriguezes insist they answered the Blue Cross salesman’s questions honestly in a telephone conversation in Spanish. If anything was amiss with the husband’s application, they say, the fault lies with Blue Cross because the company filled out their applications in English, a language they do not understand.
“What we want is the deal they promised us—if we paid them, we were covered,” Maria said in Spanish.
Blue Cross, a unit of WellPoint Inc., declined to comment.
With a lawsuit accusing Blue Cross of reneging, the Santa Ana couple has raised an issue that experts say could plague the health insurance industry in coming years as it increasingly reaches out to cover immigrants: Insurers could face legal problems unless they make sure they are doing business with customers in a language they understand.
The case “could have a very dramatic impact in terms of elevating awareness on the part of [health] plans to make sure that they are communicating in the appropriate language with all their members and not just assuming contracts in English are going to be understood,” said Gerald Kominski, a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health.
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Auto dealers and other retailers that sell products with financing long have been required to put contracts in Spanish if that is the language used to make the deal, said Alejandra Cedillo, a Los Angeles County Neighborhood Legal Services lawyer. That protection recently was expanded to consumers who speak Asian languages.
“There’s nothing that would apply to health insurance,” she said.
That’s about to change. The state Department of Managed Health Care expects to finalize rules this year that would require health plans to put key documents in the consumer’s primary language and to pay for interpreters to accompany patients to doctors’ offices and hospitals.
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04-07-2006, 09:08 PM #5
unless they are citizens, they are legally incapacitated under the Constitution.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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04-08-2006, 02:19 AM #6
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That’s about to change. The state Department of Managed Health Care expects to finalize rules this year that would require health plans to put key documents in the consumer’s primary language and to pay for interpreters to accompany patients to doctors’ offices and hospitals."We have room for but one flag, the American flag" - Theodore Roosevelt
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04-08-2006, 03:56 AM #7
In Las Vegas, we have to not only print documents in Spanish too but, most agencies now starting to accomadate various dialects as well. Evidently there is enough of a difference between the Spanish spoke among the different southern countries, that we have to have different forms for each.
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04-08-2006, 01:08 PM #8
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Originally Posted by NoToAmnesty
As a non-Mexican Spanish speaking American, I do have some problems understanding their slang sometimes, but, spend extra tax-payers money to accommodate every single slang
Well, we know our government is not spending their own money, so who cares, right?
"We have room for but one flag, the American flag" - Theodore Roosevelt
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04-09-2006, 01:59 AM #9Originally Posted by NoToAmnesty
In Santa Maria CA, there are Mixtec Indians from Mexico who do not even understand Mexican Spanish! They have their own Mixtec language which is similar to Chinese. So of course guess who gets to pay for providing Mixtec language courses to various government workers.
Of course they also recently had a Mixtec festival, where the MC spoke in both Mixtec and Spanish.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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04-09-2006, 02:05 AM #10
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Originally Posted by Bowman"We have room for but one flag, the American flag" - Theodore Roosevelt
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