When the fine print is unintelligible even for native English speakers, what hope is there for Latino immigrants?

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Check out “The Language of Care” in Newsweek (June 9, 2010).

My health-insurance company has a nice Spanish-language Web site full of information about diet, exercise, and healthy living, but the terms of the policy are in English—and it’s this fine print that scares me.

Randy Nieves Ruiz talks about how language is a barrier to accessing health care in the United States – in addition to the cultural, legal, and economic challenges many Latinos face in this country.