 In this section we explore the ethical issues involved in health resource rationing involving disability at the individual level (leaving the ethics of rationing policy for the next section). For concreteness, we look at allocation scenarios commonly used in the literature to highlight the impact of disability on the allocation strategy of CEA using the QALY metric to define health resource use benefit, or to test other intuitions about non-utilitarian, egalitarian principles of fair distribution. There are many, many different variations on these examples that can be imagined to test our intuitions, but these will give a flavor of this form of philosophical analysis. The cases are divided naturally into those in which life itself is at stake and those in which some non-fatal health outcome involving an improvement in functioning (stabilization of functioning, or prevention of further functional decline) is at stake.