Obama Orders Hospitals To Grant Same-Sex Couples Visitation Rights.

If I were dying in a hospital bed, I would want a loved one to comfort me and hold my hand. It  doesn't matter whom. To me what the president did is just  common sense, and there's no reason why anyone should be opposed to this. This puts the power with the patient- where it should be.
  President Obama  signed a memorandum requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney. On Yesterday The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo is scheduled to be made public this 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.