 It is important to note, however, that disability is not conceptually linked to (lower) quality of life. Unfortunately, there is good evidence that it is commonly believed that people with disabilities suffer from a lower quality of life associated with their level of functioning or premature mortality, and that ex ante decrement in quality of life may not be fundamentally altered by the health resource (Albrecht &amp; Devlieger 1999). This empirical fact is the source of the democracy problem as it applies to disability since if the general public is laboring under a general prejudice about what it means to live with a disability, then they will be more easily persuaded that disability is an additional cost, or limits the benefit received (or both).