RSSPresident Obama Makes Irresponsible Gay “Rights” Hospital Visitation Decisions
In lieu of the White House granting gay people the “right” to visit loved ones in the hospital, I wish to inform any Americans who see this as an advantage that it is meaningless. That is an important distinction because the president has now distracted many people from doing the things they need to do in order to assure that they do in fact have visitation rights! Please note I am neither gay nor an attorney so I have no stake in the recent proclamation, but all Americans in fact need to take the proper legal precautions or risk losing visitations to loved ones, or other significant financial problems.
If you have never retained an Estate Planner, please do so. You can contractually setup arrangements such as designating anyone your want be your beneficiary, have hospital visitation rights, etc. Your planner will guide you to state forms and procedures (yes, our freedoms truly lie with the states, not the federal government) that will guarantee your related needs. If a hospital were to violate these legal preparations they will in fact be violating the law. However, until you prepare, you are at risk, whether you are straight, gay, martian, or Purple Gambezian Poison Flower Chomper, of being turned away from your loved one’s hospital bedside unless you are in fact their legal guardian.
JBM
