It isn’t about your records being sold.
Going electronic gives government easy access to your healthcare records.
Actually, the vast majority of medical records are already electronic. The missing Rosetta Stone is a universal patient id that would allow your medical records, which may be spread over the multiple computerized systems of your providers each with it’s own flavor of patient id, to be tied together and cross-referenced.
Since the SSN cannot by law be used for this purpose, chip implants here we come.