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Originally Posted by Riot
Huffpost.com
Obama Orders Hospital Visitation Rights For Gay, Lesbian Couples
First Posted: 04-15-10 08:55 PM | Updated: 04-15-10 10:12 PM
WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama is issuing a directive he says will make it easier for hospital patients, particularly gays and lesbians, to receive visitors and choose who will make medical decisions on their behalf.
Obama is asking the Health and Human Services secretary to begin the process of putting in place federal rules to ensure that hospitals respect the rights of patients to designate visitors. The order covers hospitals receiving Medicare or Medicaid.
Under Obama's directive, those designated, including people with powers of attorney and health care proxies, are to have visitation privileges equal to immediate family members.
Obama says gays and lesbians and other Americans have been barred from the bedsides of their partners or loved ones.
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Thats really nice , so this means the feds are going to recognize domestic partnerships? Its pretty simple to get into see someone in the hospital , I have been there many times and somehow all my friends have managed to get into see me. So does this mean that if my gf gets in car accident in a state that doesnt recognize domestic partnerships I will get into to see her even though I dont have power of attorney or a health care proxy? So if she is in a coma how does she make a list of people who are allowed to see her ?
Freaking smoke and mirrors is what it is. He is reaching out to all the homo's that voted him in me not being one of them with something that is pure b.s.