It’s no surprise that Medicaid does not do a great job of making health coverage accessible to people whose primary language isn’t English. Changing that is critical, as language barriers deny millions of people healthcare even though they qualify for Medicaid, and because language access is required by federal law and regulation. April was Language Access Month, so we wanted to uplift a recent brief from our partners at the National Immigration Law Center, offering concrete recommendations for federal and state agencies to lower language access barriers in Medicaid.
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