I think the health care system should be totally disassociated from corporations.
We need a national, single payer, health care system, where we are not dependent on the good will of for-profit corporations for our well being. It's not their purpose. Companies are there to turn a profit. Let them. It's our job to determine what corporations deserve to be chartered for the good of the public. Those that do not serve the public good can be denied charters of incorporation.
The federal government should be the one to pay for maternity leaves because it is in the best interest of US as a society, to raise healthy well integrated individuals. It is up to us as a country to ensure the health and well being of future generations of Americans.
Let us not put our health, well being, and future in the hands of greedy for-profit corporations. Let us divorce ourselves from that dependency. So that people when they get sick, continue to be covered by health care. So that mothers who are raising the next generation of Americans, the ones who will look after us when we are old, can do so safely and securely, knowing we are forming a bond, from generation to generation, to take care and protect each other. Because that is the sole purpose of the union we have formed. If not, why did we write this as the preamble to our constitution:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."