Why is concierge medicine growing? In large part, because dealing with healthcare is tough on both patients and providers, and lots of people want an alternative. "The United States has not valued or financed primary care appropriately for decades," says Erin Sullivan, an associate professor of healthcare administration at Suffolk's Sawyer Business School. "The undervaluing of primary care — the under-financing of primary care — has led to a burned-out workforce and primary care staff shortages."
In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, according to a new study. The study, published in the medical journal the Lancet, is one of the first to project what the nation's obesity epidemic will look like as far out as 2050. Specifically, it suggests that 43.1 million children and adolescents and 213 million adults will have overweight and/or obesity. In 2021, 36.5 million children and adolescents and 172 million adults had overweight and obesity.
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