They want the money and power to determine what people do with their lives, and they claim the expertise to do a better job of telling people what's good and bad for them than people could figure out without their studies, statistics, and charts. If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. This means they must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the end the politicians proper become merely the scientists' puppets. Technocracy is the form to which planned society must tend. Now I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside their special subjects.
Medical doctors are now to be regarded as priests, social workers, inspectors, and police.
Medical schools will replace anatomy and physiology with courses on theology, criminology, nuclear physics, and ballistics. Murderers won't be punished but lobotomized. A rapist shot by a woman who refuses to be his victim will be just another shooting victim to the compassionate physician. No, Dr. Kassirer will decide for all of us. He will analyze your sickness then tell us what pill will make us better.