Posted on 04/15/2010 9:00:23 PM PDT by LouAvul
President Obama on Thursday signed a memorandum requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney.
The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo is scheduled to be made public Friday morning, according to an administration official and another source familiar with the White House decision.
An official said the new rule will affect any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding.
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I didn't catch that, would you please quote that part of the order? Thanks.
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Here you go. If they can not discriminate between visitors then they have to let anyone who wants in come in unless you have asked for them to be kept out.
So former friends, ex-spouses, your boss, your landlord all they have to do is claim to be your lover and they are whisked right in.
Now this may not be the intention of the memo BUT it will be the result. Because the first time a hospital asks one of the gay lovers for some kind of proof that they are actually in relationship with the patient they will scream to the heavens that their civil rights were violated and the hospital committed a hate crime.
So the hospital will not ask. It may sound wild but did you ever think you would see the day when people could wander into either a boys or girls bathroom depending on what sex they "felt like" they were that day?
Nonsense--you're talking about "public access," not discrimination. Discrimination or non-discrimination has nothing to do with letting jsut anyone in off the street. A private school can't discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual preference, etc.--that doesn't mean they take everyone who simply wants entry to their school. Ditto with apartments, private companies, etc.
You've completely distorted the meaning of disccrimination. You as much admit you're incorrect when you later add "Now this may not be the intention of the memo ..." and that the first time the hospital asks someone will scream discrimination. The first time someone asks for access and is shown right in, as you say, and the patient threatens to sue the hospital for lax security.
Obviously you don't have to agree with the ruling, but to simply invent things doesn't make sense.
It may sound wild but did you ever think you would see the day when people could wander into either a boys or girls bathroom depending on what sex they "felt like" they were that day?
A bit paranoid, aren't we? I've never seen this very rare occurance happen--have you?
The horse gets to visit, of course.
Power of attorney ends at death.
For me, and probably most here, it’s not about who visits you, but the President has NO right to dictate this and absolutely no reason to micromanage this either.
Wait until Obamacare takes hold. He will be ordering Catholic hospitals to perform abortions for the same reasons.
“People in a committed relationship should be able to visit their loved ones in the hospital.”
What is a ‘committed relationship’, what are it’s limits or boundries and how do you gauge it at the hospital?
Right. But the same contractual powers that currently exist can then name anyone as executor.
That's exactly what this does. Unmarried couples, either gay or straight, can now specify in writing who can visit them in the hospital. There's nothing about this that says hospitals have to allow visitation rights to someone just claiming to be someone's partner.
I agree. A micro-managing, self-absorbed dictator.
Our legislatve branch should be ASHAMED for allowing this to take place.
It may be "official" policy, but I doubt it's ever enforced.
Just another day in paradise.....
Is Larry Sinclare hospitalized?
Sinclare-———> Sinclair
That’s not my point. From what I read it goes to also giving gay partners medical POA. Currently, you can give anyone medical POA in writing. This seems to indicate that gay partners now have that right without writing. Next of kin can make medical decisions for an incapacitated person based upon legally recognized relationships. There are legal documents which are evidence of such relationships (marriage licenses, birth certificates). Without such, how does a hospital shield itself from liability if someone claims to be a “partner” but it turns out the incapacitated party does not have the same intent?
This is not an issue of visitation, but of medical decisions. I just think the hospital can be caught in a no-win situation in some cases where the parties may not view their relationship in the same light, but one is incapacitated and cannot speak for his own medical decisions.
But I have never seen them ask for any proof of familial relationship. Hospitals should let patients have visits from whomever the patient wishes. No need for the so-called president to be involved. The man just wants to micro-manage the world.
FUBO
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