Friday, January 09, 2004
You Think Health Care is Expensive Now
The Bush Administration announced yesterday that 2002 marked the largest cost increase in health care spending in 11 years.
But if you think health care is expensive now, just wait. Clinton Executive Order 13166 required that all health care providers provide translations into any patient's choice of language. On January 5th of this year, the Bush Administration completed a review of the applicability of E.O. 13166 to health care.
There are already too many costly malpractice lawsuits involving a doctor and patient who both speak English. Mandatory translation is nothing more than a gold mine for personal injury lawyers.
Just one lawsuit reaped a $71 million award because paramedics misinterpreted a single Spanish word.
America's hospitals simply can't afford E.O. 13166. President Bush, please take note.
|posted by Jim on 2:09 PM|
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