[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : HEALTH CARE REFORM : MEDICAL: HOSPITALS : GAY PEOPLE: Obama Orders Most Hospitals to Grant Gays Visitation Rights
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- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
HEALTH CARE REFORM :
MEDICAL: HOSPITALS :
GAY PEOPLE:
Obama Orders Most Hospitals to Grant Gays Visitation Rights
Obama Orders Most Hospitals to Grant Gays Visitation Rights
Same-sex partners must get the same privileges granted heterosexual
couples in hospitals that get Medicare or Medicaid funds, he says in a
memo.
By Christi Parsons and Kathleen Hennessey
April 16, 2010
Los Angeles Times
Nation
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-na-gay-couples-hospitals16-2010apr16,0,1699384.story?track=rss>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y6vclqe>
Reporting from Washington
President Obama late Thursday ordered most hospitals in the country to
grant the same visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners that they do
to married heterosexual couples.
In a memo to his Health and Human Services agency, Obama ordered the
secretary to ensure that all hospitals getting Medicare and Medicaid money
honor all patients' advance directives, including those designating who
gets family visitation privileges.
The order also requires that documents granting power of attorney and
healthcare proxies be honored, regardless of sexual orientation. The
language could apply to unmarried heterosexual couples too.
The presence of loved ones is more important during a hospital stay than
at any other time, Obama wrote in his memo. Yet widows and widowers with
no children are often denied the "support and comfort of a good friend,"
he said, as are members of religious orders.
"Also uniquely affected are gay and lesbian Americans, who are often
barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent
decades of their lives," he wrote.
In recent months, some leaders in the gay community have grown tired of
waiting for the Democratic president to act on their issues since he took
office more than a year ago.
But Obama has begun a steady campaign to repeal the "don't ask, don't
tell" policy regarding gays and lesbians serving in the military. And his
memo on hospital visitation rights touches on an issue of long-standing
concern for gays and lesbians and their families.
Although it is not one of the more controversial items on gay activists'
agenda, the visitation issue could still inspire a political fight. One
conservative thinker said late Thursday that the memo undermines the
definition of marriage and represents government intrusion into
healthcare.
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