Posted on 01/05/2009 8:41:06 AM PST by BGHater
...and health care costs continue to skyrocket :(
Interpreters “at their side” or at the other end of a phone connection?
more diverse? looks like california is getting more uniform to me, not diverse.
this will probably soon be the case in Minnesota at voting booths, too.
effin idiots...
Anything for an illegal Mexican vote ——
So true. Next time I'm in a California hospital, I'll ask for an interpreter -- and if they refuse me, I'll sue 'em.
Just because.
I recall a court case in Oregon being delayed due to the lack of interpreter. The defendant demanded an interpeter who spoke Klingon.
But does the state subject themselves to the same regulation?
Can non-English speaking drivers demand a translator be present when they get pulled over for a traffic stop?
The Sac Bee headline is incomplete -
It’s the law: California patients can have an interpreter at their side....and it will cost the rest of you for it!
How soon will the interpreters be unionized?
Geeze. Let’s not give them any ideas.
....but California is BROKE....and can’t pay for this...
That’s next. “No English”....drive away. A Dentist in my neighborhood got a call from the local Immigrant Center that they needed him to work on a “client”. The “client” needed their Interpreter to come along. They billed him for it! He lost almost a $1,000!
“”This is really huge, especially in California where we’re getting more and more diverse,” said Martin Martinez, “
BS. We’re getting more and more MEXICAN. THAT is not diversity! In other countries, they call it ethnic cleansing.
I’ve seen plenty of this out here already. The translator (usually Russian around here) follows the patient around the hospital like a personal valet. Usually the patient just sits around while the translator takes care of all the details at the check-in desk. It really burns me that my insurance premium shoots up every year to pay for this nonsense.
Maybe the state employees will finally wise up as they’re getting layed off....that what they once got, now foreign nationals get!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159006/posts
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Can I get an interpreter for my nephrologist? I speak perfect English but I can barely understand his Chinese-English.
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