Might help if you looked at what he actually said.
A. He was first and foremost talking about refusing these treatments for himself. Emanuel said he plans to refuse life-prolonging and preventive care starting in 2032 because "this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive." People become less creative as they age, he wrote. A deadline of 75 years "forces each of us to ask whether our consumption is worth our contribution."
B. He is an oncologist and a surprising number of them refuse chemotherapy for themselves, than know the personal cost too damn well.
C. Sarah Palin once called him "Orwellian" for an op-ed in which he noted that many medical professionals support the idea of providing care to younger rather than older patients when resources are very scarce. - Well sorry I agree with them on that.
D. Life expectancy should not be used as a measure for the quality of health care once a country's average age has exceeded 75 years, he wrote. And biomedical research should be focused more on "Alzheimer's, the growing disabilities of old age, and chronic conditions — not on prolonging the dying process," he wrote.

Also look at the fact that the guy is desparately trying to get the Republicans to retain some form of universal health care. My bigger beef with him is he is anti euthanasia.

He sounds like an inhuman piece of shit. We don't live in a society where we need to ration resources to that extent.

The reality may apply to one round of serious medical treatment. If war breaks out, we find the money to fund it, if aliens attacked or a deadly asteroid was approaching, we would find all the money needed, successful or not.Money is an illusion, the reality is whether people/society wish to share wealth or keep it. Can we stop kids from starving overseas? Of course we can, but we won't.

Well from a purely practicul point of yiew thats true as soon as you retire and stop putting into the system.

When a person has contributed a lifetime of producive work and citizenship, he or she has earned comfortable waing years. I do not believe that dramatic effort should be made to sustain life with no quality. But, as a man of age 81, I have medical conditions which must be managed, but which still allow me to enjoy life if I take care of myself. I have earned that.

I am reminded of the Star Trek NG episode with David Ogden Stiers (Aka, Charles Emerson Winchester the 3rd) about a society that has a mandatory death age.

Don't know who he is but sounds Nazi-like.

As a nurse I find it absolutely ridiculous. I have patients in their 70's living a healthier more productive live than people in their 30's. I think it's dangerous and moronic to start viewing the worth of someone's life based on their worth to you.