Who Gets the Ventilator? Disability Discrimination in COVID-19 Medical-Rationing Protocols
dc.contributor.author | Bagenstos, Samuel R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-28T19:13:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-28T19:13:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-27 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/who-gets-the-ventilator | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/155445 | |
dc.description | Originally published by The Yale Law Journal Company, Incorporated in the Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 130, pp. 1-25 (2020/2021). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to reckon with the possibility of having to ration life-saving medical treatments. In response, many health systems have employed protocols that explicitly de-prioritize people for these treatments based on pre-existing disabilities. This Essay argues that such protocols violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Affordable Care Act. Such explicit discrimination on its face violates these statutes. Nor can medical providers simply define disabled patients as being “unqualified” because of disabilities that do not affect the ability to ameliorate the condition for which treatment is sought. A proper interpretation of the law may permit medical providers to use disability as a basis for a rationing decision where an individual’s underlying disability will kill the individual in the immediate term regardless of the treatment. However, as this Essay demonstrates, those circumstances will be narrow. Further, the law requires that such imminent-death determinations will be made based on the best available objective evidence, free from both bias against people with disabilities and devaluation of their lives. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | COVID-19 Research Publications | |
dc.title | Who Gets the Ventilator? Disability Discrimination in COVID-19 Medical-Rationing Protocols | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Law and Legal Studies | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Government Information and Law | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Law School | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155445/1/BagenstosEssay.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155445/3/DeepBluepermissions_agreement-CCBYandCCBY-NC_ORCID_Bagenstos.docx | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2139/ssrn.3559926 | |
dc.identifier.source | The Yale Law Journal Forum | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-4752-662X | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of BagenstosEssay.pdf : Article | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of DeepBluepermissions_agreement-CCBYandCCBY-NC_ORCID_Bagenstos.docx : Deep Blue sharing agreement | |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Bagenstos, Samuel; 0000-0002-4752-662X | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Law School |
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