This kind of information makes me simultaneously so happy that I have had all the children I will have...and terrified at the fact that three of my four children are girls.
The USA has been fully revealed at this point to be a shareholder value driven state. Human lives, human happiness, human understanding do not matter here...only the bottom line for shareholders.
The ways in which shareholder capitalism impact medical care are tragic and deeply systemic at this point. We need a complete shakeup from the culture up in medicine and science (and finance, and education, and and and....etc).