HHS Seeking Obamacare Marketplace Translation Services for Over 100 Languages

Weekly Standard ^ | 8/8/13 | Jeryl Bier

[Nachum]

News broke Wednesday that, even as the October 1 deadline for Obamacare "marketplaces" approaches, training requirements for Obamacare "navigators" were being scaled back by one-third. With less than two months remaining, the Obama administration is also facing increasing pressure to make sure data privacy and security concerns are addressed with the new system. Now the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to fill another need relating to the operation of the exchanges: translation services. On Monday, HHS posted a notice looking for small business sources to provide "Telephone Interpretation and Written Document

[Nachum]

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[traditional1]

If the coming Amnesty does not include "must speak and demonstrate ability to understand English", then the opportunity to stop this bullshit foreigners' dictating the cost of multi-lingual printing and crap.

But then, speaking English would disenfranchise "Holder's People".

[thouworm]

“Effectively provide 24x7 oral over-the-phone interpretation services in any language (supporting at least 100 languages)...”
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It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages

Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/guide/languages.shtml

[RicocheT]

Yikes! Think of the cost. ObamaCare is a tax money sinkhole. What’s wrong with explanations in English and Spanish, the 1 & 2 common languages? The rest must have some friend or relative who can come and translate. After all, the benefits are restricted by law to citizens and LEGAL residents.

[ExTexasRedhead]

1930’s Germany reborn, IMO.

[Starboard]

The explanations in Spanish were just the start that put us on the inevitable slippery slope of cultural choas. And now the Obamacare sinkhole is leading us toward financial chaos.

There are no more advantages to being a legal citizen.

[G Larry]

We’re not nearly done translating that POS legislation into ENGLISH!!!!

[TurboZamboni]

HHS says it ditched ‘exchanges’ because word doesn’t translate into Spanish

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983903/posts

call it El Stupido.

[twoputt]

Press 1 for English,

Press 2 for Spanish,
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Press 53 for Pig Latin,
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Press 100 for Klingon.

[sun7]

Even with this constant news about obamacare not ready, it is unlikely it will be stopped or defunded now. Looking at its history, it’s almost like obamacare is destined to become reality from the start.

Obamacare could well be the final straw to bring about the cataclysmic changes conservatives have all been anticipating, given the nation’s already dire financial situation. It is hard to tell whether that is good or bad at this point.