FACT SHEET
Abstract
As American health care transitions from volume to value, successful employers, plans, and health systems are finding strong primary care to be absolutely essential. Yet nationally, the United States spends only 4-8% of health care dollars on primary care, compared to an average of approximately 12% among other industrialized countries1 – each of which spends substantially less on health care than the United States. To build an American health care system that delivers better care at a lower cost, primary care must become a national health policy priority.