Their goal is to privatise it, so they and their oligarch friends have guaranteed rent profits for eternity - but that would be so unpopular that they can't say it out loud.
This is just another subterfuge.
Also, compiling and cross-referencing everyone's personal data (social security numbers, addresses, health records, IRS, biometrics, banking, etc.) and feeding it to AI is a great tool for coercion and control, allowing them to enact swift punitive measures for any citizen daring to come out of line with the regime and rewarding those that obey.
I'm surprised that this isn't obvious for the majority of journalists and politicians out there? All the reporting on this seems to lack the sense of urgency and panic it should convey. It's all very "alleged", "claims". We're way past the pretense of politeness and due process. I don't get it.