I just came across this little rant from Bill Maher, in which he pretty much hits the nail on the head. Sometimes satire is the most effective mode of journalism!
Here are my favorite quotes from this:
"We won't stop being sick until we stop making ourselves sick"
"The government isn't your nanny, they're your dealer, and they subsidize illness in America"
"There's no money in healthy people, and there's no money in dead people. The money is in the middle. People who are alive, sort of..."
"(drug company ads) like to say "when diet and exercise fail"....well, diet and exercise don't fail"