Staff of the Yakima Valley Office of Emergency Management evaluate a weekly supply shipment April 2 in Union Gap, Wash. (Amanda Ray/Yakima Herald-Republic/AP)

The chairman of the National Council on Disability and a former administrator in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights write that health care professionals and policymakers should not consider disability as a disqualifying factor when rationing health care. They argue that many, including physicians, do not understand that having a disability does not necessarily impair one’s quality of life and often does not affect one’s length of life.