Posted on 04/16/2010 3:37:33 AM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients' choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.
The president directed the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation in a memo that was e-mailed to reporters Thursday night while he was at a fundraiser in Miami.
Administration officials and gay activists, who have been quietly working together on the issue, said the new rule will affect any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding, a move that covers the vast majority of the nation's health-care institutions. Obama's order will start a rule-making process at HHS that could take several months, officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
So this doesn’t really hurt the Catholic hospitals? How do conservative Catholics feel about this decision? (Just curious)
I have had doctors wives as patients along with 300 dollar a day junkies...(doctors wives are not as easy as the junkies sometimes)
I just read an interesting comment by a spokesman for the Famiy Research Council, the conservative group. He said that this decision by Obama shows that the federal government is intruding further into the smallest decisions in our health care system.
Excellent point, and a harbinger of the socialized medicine to come.
Homosexual visits really is nothing, what the government wants is for them to perform abortions and at that point most if not all will close down..
So, basically what he is revealing is that any hospital/clinic/dentist/whatever that accepts federal dollars is a branch of the federal government.
Of course.
Abortions, the sacred rite of liberals, must be performed in every place that is under federal control.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.