I respectfully disagree. The reason I thought it was unfeeling was because he said that "I have to wonder why, in a world with billions of people, we would spend a million dollars to keep just one human alive?"

It was the "we" part that got to me. We don't spend millions of dollars on every human, we (as a society) don't need to. But we do spend that on the few humans that it does cost millions to keep alive. There are a lot of research projects that costs millions of dollars to keep going, and often they find breakthroughs that influence other areas.

And I wasn't really disparaging him. He said himself that he thought it might sound unfeeling. To me, it did.