What would the numbers be without pharmaceutical agents? America is already disgustingly unhealthy to begin with, so it's easy to blame pharmaceutical companies as they shove cheeseburgers down their throats and drink a liter of vodka every night instead of acknowledging that they need to take their own health into their hands.
1/3 of Americans are obese, and the vast majority of Americans live sedentary lifestyles. Big pharma doesn't need to do much to profit off America.
I agree, but pharma doesn't help this situation. They prescribe super addictive things to anyone mildly needing treatment and then suck off $billions watching the nation deteriorate. Americans being infantile and lacking responsibility and self-containance certainly doesn't help either
It's a double edged sword. I think a legitimate criticism of doctors would be that they over prescribe for short term patient satisfaction. Get a surgery in the U.S. and they'll give you as much opiate medication as you want because it'll help with the pain. Then you develop a pill addiction and you're done for.