Obama Extends Health Care Visitation Rights To Gay Couples President Obama has ordered the Department of Health And Human Services to draft rules requiring that hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding grant all patients the ability to designate people who can visit with them and consult on medical decisions — a move aimed at guaranteeing health care visitation rights to same-sex couples. In his statement, Obama said: “all too often, people are made to suffer or even to pass away alone, denied the comfort of companionship in their final moments while a loved one is left worrying and pacing down the hall.”
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