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Add another notch on the Presidents belt for helping to implement the “change” that he ran his campaign on. New regulations regarding hospital visitation rights went into effect Tuesday, paving the way for members of the LGBT community to have further control over their own medical decisions. Under the new protocol, initiated last April and developed over the following months, hospitals partaking in Medicare and Medicaid must now allow all patients to decide visitation rights, as well as who to entrust with making medical decisions on their behalf, regardless of sexual or gender identity. “This policy impacts millions of LGBT Americans and their families. The President saw an injustice and felt very strongly about correcting this and has spoken about it often over the years,” White House deputy director of public engagement Brian Bond wrote on the White House blog. It’s kind of sad that gay or lesbian couples were not allowed to have visitation rights to see their ailing partners. We know that everyone has their own opinion about gay rights, but seeing a dying loved one shouldn’t have to be justified by the Leader of the Free World. Source

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President Obama Sets New Regulations For Gay and Lesbian Visitation Rights At Hospitals