The Trump administration wants to ease a federal regulation requiring certain health care organizations provide patients with limited English skills a written notice of free translation services.
A federal regulation demands that certain health care organizations provide patients who have limited English skills a written notice of free translation services.
These changes are part of a broader proposed regulation that would roll back protections banning discrimination based on gender identity. The public comment period closes Aug. 13. “I haven’t seen any reason to believe that this will only have a negligible impact,” said Mara Youdelman, managing attorney for the Washington, D.C., office of the National Health Law Program, a civil rights advocacy group. She said it “will likely result in people just not knowing their rights but not accessing care to which they’re eligible.”
“No one realized exactly what that definition of ‘significant communication’ — how much would be wrapped up in that,” said Katie Keith, a Georgetown University professor who specializes in the ACA. Other state and federal laws protect the rights of patients with limited language services, the proposed rule says. It also cites evidence of some enrollees not liking the extra forms and being less inclined to open their mail because of them.
Youdelman admitted she does not have concrete data showing that these taglines translate to increased access to services. However, she added, removing them wholesale without a promise to prevent discrimination in a different way is also counterproductive.
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