A vicious (and evil!) cycle

[iago]

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/04/health-insurance-companies-invest-billions-in-fast-food-chains.html

Health insurance companies invest billions of dollars in fast food chains.

From the article:

Did you ever wonder how health insurance companies drum up future business? It's easy: Just invest in companies whose products cause chronic degenerative disease, driving people towards more health care needs and therefore more health insurance.

[Sidoh]

The whole article is written with an obnoxiously biased tone and uses charged terms (e.g., "sick-care") all over the place... it'd be much more influencing to me if it was more objectively written.

Generally, though, I think that insurance should not be profitable.  I don't think that capitalism benefits the larger population in the case of insurance and pharmaceutical companies.