RT Journal
A1 McConnel C
T1 A free clinic paradox
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD April 25
VO 171
IS 8
SP 782
OP 790
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.143
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.143
AB 
Darnell has presented a detailed report of her major national survey of free clinics and an illuminating discussion of how vital this asset is as a component of the nation's health care “safety net.”1 Yet considering the enormous resource base of this fine but relatively obscure national health care asset—its thousand or so clinics and countless hours of professional and semiprofessional volunteer health care providers plus paid staff and in-kind community-based contributions—what comes to mind is the economists' major inconvenient truth, “there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”