Whatever your ailment, a pill or a procedure will fix it

From the controversial NY Times article about a "Fat Tax".

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16FOB-wwln-t.html

It’s as if we have little responsibility for our own health. We instead outsource it to something called the health care system.

The promise of that system is undeniably alluring: whatever your ailment, a pill or a procedure will fix it. Yet the promise hasn’t been kept. For all the miracles that modern medicine really does perform, it is not the primary determinant of most people’s health.