President Obama directed the Department of Health and Human Services to order hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding to allow partners of gay and lesbian patients to visit those patients. Before, a hospital could refuse such visitation because the partner would not be related by blood or by traditional marriage.
And, regarding a matter that speaks more directly to the purpose of this blog, the gay and lesbian patients will not be prevented from designating their partners as the person who can serve as a health care proxy.
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