HHS proposed regs on hospital visitation ignore the needs of those incapable of naming visitors

If ever there was a bi-partisan no-brainer it is that every hospitalized patient should be able to name his or her visitors, subject to a medical reason to exclude them. The proposed regs emerging from the Obama administration (on line now but subject to official publication on Monday) accomplish no more than that.But what about emergencies, about patients unable to name their visitors? The