Apr
16
A Step Towards Equality
ByWaPo:
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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April 16th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Obama continues to make substantive changes at a very calm pace.
I think we’ll look back in another couple of years and go “wow!”
April 16th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Obama’s directive to federal DHHS is modeled on NC’s policy that Equality NC helped put in place in 2008.
Check out the article and links to the 2008 article at http://www.equalitync.org
What’s the status of domestic partner benefits in Asheville? I’ve been out-of-the-loop.
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April 18th, 2010 at 1:25 am
Must be some of that fierce advocacy he talked about during his campaign (scarcasm).
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