If you don't think that's the goal, you're not paying attention.
I used to work for a hospital system that was part of the campaign to digitize medical records with Cerner (an EMR solutions provider).
I was reviewing the budget with the bosses in 2009 and noticed a substantial sum of cash on our capex budgeting paperwork with a "Federal" line item description. When I asked about it, they said it must've been a typo. The next week, the updated capex paperwork came out without that line item, but the bottom line budget numbers did not sum up properly to the total listed.
They'd actually hidden the row in Excel to make it not show up, but I'd noticed and asked again. The next revision had the same numbers, but the "Federal" line item description was changed to "security contingency funds."
I never did get a straight answer, and the money was used to install proprietary, non-standard storage equipment in our data center that linked in directly with our network and SAN. We were not permitted to touch it or otherwise perform maintenance on it.
That's downright Orwellian.
Hmm...the Feds really do plan to take over the Health care Industry al right ....