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Health care in America is at a tipping point. Although COVID-19 created a dip in primary care visits, total primary care volume has finally returned to its pre-pandemic levels. The current health care system faces a number of challenges — there's a drastic provider shortage with provider availability plummeting, and primary care capacity is worsened by expensive hospital-system based or other non-independently practicing primary care. Meanwhile, health care costs are expected to rise another 7% in 2024.

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