They are LEGALLY compelled to put the interests of their shareholders before everything else.

This is not true and people need to stop perpetuating it. They have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. If they don’t increase profits, the board of directors might replace the CEO. But there’s NO LAW forcing this. If there was, there wouldn’t be the popular (among Apple nerds) Tim Cook quote to “get out of the stock” over how environmentalism affects ROI.

Cook, clearly trying to remain calm, shot back: “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI [return on investment]. When I think about doing the right thing, I don’t think about an ROI.”

Cook then offered his own bottom line to Danhof, or any other critic, one which perfectly sums up his belief that social and political and moral leadership are not antithetical to running a business. “If that’s a hard line for you,” Cook continued, “then you should get out of the stock.”

https://alearningaday.blog/2016/03/12/tim-cook-on-roi

Please stop mixing untruths with facts about the shittiness of our healthcare system.