Privacy? Hipaa? You’ve got to be kidding.
http://gains.prainc.com/pdfs/integrating/Dispelling_Myths.pdf
“there had ben 22,664 complaints received by OCR (Office of Civil Rights of the Fed Dept of Health and Human Services) through Sept 30, 2006, not a single penalty has been imposed.”
And if you shuffle through the DSM (psychiatry’s diagnostic compilation) you’ll find that various drugs/FDA approved or Street, used to relieve pain automatically qualify a person as incurably mentally ill, and Goodbye Rights.
You may want to update your research. The rule was passed in 2006, the same year mentioned in your factoid.
It took a while, but the first penalty (2011) was $4.3 million. There have been plenty (plenty) since then.
And "Hello" disability check!