“In the first enrollment, we had NO support or resources in terms of bilingual navigator assistance for the Asian-American community,” says Dr. Tsu-Yin Wu, Director of Michigan’s only AHJ member Healthy Asian Americans Project (HAAP). But this year, she received a federal grant to hire additional help, and is hiring bilingual navigators who speak Mandarin/Cantonese, Bengali, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Hindi, and Gujarati.Language Barriers Persist in Affordable Care Act Enrollment - NBC News.com
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Language Barriers Persist in Affordable Care Act Enrollment - NBC News.com
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