Disability and the Image of God

Some medical procedures carry with them ramifications which affect others, or have known ramifications for those who choose them.
If I were to seek a medical procedure which would incapacitate me (a purely private matter?), so that I could be awarded disability status and receive disability social security payments (a public ramification) would you support that? Or, would you object on both public grounds and private ones, that what I sought was not even good for me?