FEE’s daily “In Brief” notes this 1993 article that recounts the progression of government health care in Germany from 1918 to 1945.  While responding to the Clinton government health care take-over, it is highly relevant for the debate today.

In the United States the medical profession operates in a mixed (not
a national socialist) economy which does not yet have the
institutionalized mechanisms of control and regulation of Weimar
Germany and in a democratic political system which thankfully does not
have the political ideology of the Third Reich. But the ?banality of
evil? described by Hannah Arendt in the Third Reich may stem largely
from a government bureaucracy in which 90 percent of the people think
90 percent of the time about process?not purpose. Does the modern
bureaucratization of medicine hold any real risk for a possible return
with new health reforms and new medical technologies?to some of the
horrors of National Socialist medicine? Removal of personal
responsibility (?I was only following orders?), personal authority, and
personal choice in a bureaucratized system may leave less and less room
for individual ethics in the conduct of medical science and practice.

Politicized medicine is not a sufficient cause of the mass
extermination of human beings, but it seems to be a necessary cause.
The Nazi Holocaust did not happen for some inexplicable German reason;
it is not an event that we can afford to ignore because we are not
Germans or not Nazis. The history of Germany from 1914 to 1945 is a
telescoping of modernity from monarchy, war, and collapse to democracy
and the welfare state, and finally to dictatorship, war, and death.