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More embarrassment for President Obama's signature healthcare program! Obamacare is at the butt of fresh ridicule. Ask why? Well, it seems that the vital Spanish version of his healthcare website is filled with mortifying grammatical errors and bugs.
The portal — CuidadoDeSalud.gov— which was launched two months later than the stipulated time, is facing a flak from the critics for errors like 'Spanglish' - with some claiming that the language it’s is so clunky, it must have been generated on Google Translate. The site translates the word, 'premium' into 'prima' - which in Spanish is more commonly used to label a female cousin.
What’s worse, just like its original English counterpart, the Spanish website too is impregnated with errors and obstruct seamless web experience for its users.
Health care specialist, Adiran Madriz said that the” site is not written in recognized Spanish - potentially leading to enormous problems for the 53 million people of Hispanic origin in the United States, accounting for 17 per cent of the population,” reports the Daily Mail.
'When you get into the details of the plans, it's not all written in Spanish. It's written in Spanglish, so we end up having to translate it for them,' said Madriz of the applicants.
The Spanish site, just like the English site, is full of bugs and just doesn't work when you want it to. To make this worse, the numbers of Spanish-language call centers is significantly less than English ones in the country.
And the most frustrating part is that despite Obama administration knowing how vital Hispanic people are to the success of his Affordable Care Act, they are least bothered to act up fast on this.
“Critics say that as a result of various problems, including those related to the website, many people whom the law was designed to help have been left out of the first wave of coverage,” reports the Daily Mail.
Federal officials say they have been working to make the site better and improvements will be made soon.
(AW: Suchorita Choudhury)
