²⁸ 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 12201-12213 (West 1999). The Ada has five titles. Title I bars employment discrimination by all but the smallest employers. It forbids segregation, denial of reasonable accommodations, using qualification criteria or tests that screen out persons with disabilities unless the criteria or tests are job related and supported by business necessity, and various other practices. Title Ii bars discrimination by state and local government. It requires program accessibility for public services. Title Iii forbids discrimination by places of public accommodation. It imposes a duty to eliminate readily removable barriers to access. Title IV requires the extension of telecommunication services to persons with hearing and speech impairments. Title V includes enforcement and other provisions. Titles Ii and Iii have specific provisions addressed to accessibility in the design, construction and alteration of buildings. Disability discrimination by the federal government and entities it assists is forbidden by additional provisions found at 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 794-794a (West 1999).

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³² Great Lakes Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center, Harris Poll Results, Region V News, Spring/Summer 1998, at 1 (collecting statistical sources).

³³ Mitchell P. LaPlante et al., Disability and Employment #11, Disability Statistics Abstract, Sept. 8, 1997 (collecting statistical sources).

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³⁸ See id. at 104-06.

³⁹ For a citations to sources and a more detailed argument in favor of the adoption of medical insurance provisions in the United States, see id.