Where have we heard about a government's view on medicine and individualism and the national good before? Hmmm. Oh, yeah, it was the Nazi's. One skip, then a jump from preventative medicine to forced sterilization and inhumane experiments on live patients because the end justified the means. Pharmaceutical companies were complacent and cut a deal with the political leaders back then, too (Bayer, for one).
Folks, there's nothing new under the sun, we must be students of history.