Dive Summary:

• Americans are visiting retail health clinics for their wellness needs more frequently – topping ten million visitors according to finalized reports from 2012.
• "It's generally people who don't have a primary care doctor and who overall are healthier," states Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
• The target group could change as an increasing number of retail clinics currently have plans to widen their healthcare services to include more serious medical conditions.

From the article:

... "We can only speculate," Dr. Mehrotra says. "My own instinct is that as more people get insurance, they will increase the demand for primary care physicians. Given our fixed supply of doctors, wait times are likely to go up. This may drive demand to retail clinics." ...