The Health Care Reform legislation which is now pending with the Congress has given rise to a new development. The legislation proposes that doctors and hospitals would have to provide language translation service and interpreters free of charge to patients who do not speak or understand English. Those who fail to do so would be severely penalized.
This has created quite a storm as many people are outraged at the huge cost that would be incurred by health care industry (which is already battling severe financial crisis) for providing these services. Others are of the opinion that such schemes would make sure that a lot of immigrants don’t even make the effort to learn English which is necessary while living in a country which is predominantly English speaking.
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