In another humane and fair step by President Obama, he ordered that all hospitals who receive Medicare and Medicaid payments must grant same-sex couples the equal rights that immediate family have always experienced.
"All to often people are made to suffer or even pass away alone, denied the comfort of companionship in their final moments while a loved one is left worrying and pacing down the hall," Obama said.
He said that in the past gay and lesbian Americans had often been barred from the bedsides of the partners they had spent decades of their lives with "unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated."
Could same-sex marriage be far behind?
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