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The Price of Disability Law – by Stephen J. Dubner (NY Times). "We wrote a column a while back about a variety of powerful unintended consequences. One example was the Americans With Disabilities Act, and we told the story of a Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon named Andrew Brooks. When a deaf patient came to him for a consultation, he realized that the A.D.A. required him to hire a sign-language interpreter for each visit if that's what the patient wanted. . . . Brooks saw the patient and paid for the interpreter out of his pocket; fortunately, she didn't need surgery. But the incident made him conclude that if doctors have such a strong financial disincentive in such a case, 'this kind of patient will end up getting passed on and passed on, getting the runaround, not understanding why she's not getting good care'. "
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/the-price-of-disability-law/