Mealey's (November 19, 2021, 1:58 PM EST) -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Even if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act covers health care recipients’ companions, discrimination claims under the law still rise and fall with the Rehabilitation Act, and a man lacks evidence that isolated failures during a single visit to a hospital for the birth of his child constitute intentional discrimination, a federal judge in North Carolina said Nov. 16 in dismissing the man’s suit....