Preventing Premature Labor Just Went from $20 to $1,500

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I just read that the federal government has granted a company exclusive manufacturing and marketing rights to the drug Makena, which is the most common drug to prevent preterm labor. It is listed as the generic form of treatment for preterm labor prevention. The drug, which is made from the hormone progestoren (mispelled, sorry), currently costs $10-$20 per injection. Beginning next month, it is believed that the company will begin charging more than $1,500 per injection for the treatment. Some agencies regard the cost as being worth it. Apparently they fail to realize that the majority of Americans don't just have $1,500 lying around and that many insurance companies, and most likely government operated medical programs such as Medicaid, are unlikely to absorb the cost or the full cost of the treatment. Do you think that the government did the right thing? Does anyone believe that this could be a hidden agenda with the government as a sense of keeping the impoverished from reproducing and thus creating population control, as many of the infants will not survive a premature birth or live for long afterward? Many of those premature infants that survive will have long term physical and mental disabilities. Could this be a sick way of mind control?... Keeping the newer generations of the impoverished from being able to act competently, thus most often silencing their voices in how the government is operated silent all together? Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm"