Rights to which patients are entitled as recipients of medical care. It articulates positive rights which doctors, hospitals and other healthcare facilities should provide to patients including but not limited to, fair treatment, right to privacy, and granting autonomy over medical decisions, etc. Each medical facility you visit should have a patient rights handout for you to read and for you to know what you are entitled to from the medical staff as a patient.
This was released in an email from the Presidents office.
A major goal of the Affordable Care Act is to put American consumers back in charge of their coverage and care.
Here are a few key ways these new rules will help do that:
These rules effectively put in place a basic set of consumer protections known over the years as the "Patient's Bill of Rights." This is a concept introduced 15 years ago and supported by both Democrats and Republicans. After years of effort and the passage of the Affordable Care Act, I'm proud to say we are finally protecting those rights and putting health care back in the right hands: yours.
Not really: a Bill of Rights for a patient does legally oblige a hospital to follow those rights, but the document itself is not a legal document. The rights of a patient in a hospital applies to all patients in that hospital, and therefore does not have to be executed (signed by both sides of the party) as a legal document.
They are designed to protect: Liberty
The individual, from the government.
The Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Federalists
The Bill of Rights very specifically were designed to protect American citizens from an overly zealous or abusive government.
the bill of rights has everything to say that it has to protect our rights
In the US, the US Constitution sets the rules for protecting citizen rights. State constitutions do the same with regard to state laws and their effect on citizens. Individual local laws are designed to protect citizen rights as well.
Yes
yes
the bill of right protect peoeple freedoms
it could protect me from the government