"These people who live a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age—when I look at what those people “do,” almost all of it is what I classify as play. It’s not meaningful work."
According to this "ethicist", the lives of non-productive, non-creative people should not be supported/extended by medicine.
Try telling that to Medicare recipients, those that retired in their 50s, families with members with special needs, the homeless, those with long term disabilities, manufacturing skills that cannot find employment, in the coal industry, with PTSD and mental health issues, addicted to Sacklers' poison. Why stop there? Why not argue that work is not meaningful unless one makes more than minimum wage or at least a living wage.
That is a dystopian future that sounds to me more like Logan's Run than anything else.