Retail clinics have recently boomed in popularity. Visits to these clinics, often set up in shopping malls or drug stores, quadrupled between 2007 and 2009. That's what we know for sure. What we know less about is what that means for the quality of American health care. On the one hand, these clinics increase access to health care services at a potentially lower price.

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