Here's all you need to know at the bottom of the article:

"Ezekiel J. Emanuel is ....a partner at Oak HC/FT, a health care investment company."

Shabby nonsense from the Times.

So someone with enough expertise to manage investments in the area is automatically disqualified from having and sharing an opinion about it?

Ezekiel Emanuel was also one of the architects of Obamacare, which hey, lots of people will hold that as an even bigger point against him. But he may have an interesting opinion about health care policy.