Obama Memo: Hospitals Must Allow Gays Visitation Rights
Yesterday, President Obama asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to ensure that all hospitals receiving funding from Medicare and Medicaid honor patients' advance directives, power of attorney and health care proxies, regardless of sexual orientation. The memorandum will allow same-sex partners, as well as heterosexual couples who are not married, visitation rights in hospitals.
- "Obama Orders Most Hospitals To Grant Gays Visitation Rights" (Parsons/Hennessey, Los Angeles Times, 4/16).