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Obama: Give Gay Couples Hospital Visiting Rights
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Apr 16, 2010 11:20am |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Friday, April 16, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (CBS) President Barack Obama is moving to grant gay and lesbian partners the same hospital visitation rights as married couples - seeking new rules that would remedy a longstanding thorn in the side of civil rights groups.
In a two-page memo released Thursday, Mr. Obama asks the Department of Health and Human Services to write new rules for all hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid mandating the equal visitation rights.
The measure is not aimed solely at gay couples - Mr. Obama notes that widows and widowers, members of religious orders and others with loved ones who are not immediate family members can face the same predicament. Still he notes that gay couples are "uniquely affected … often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives." |
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