TY  - JOUR
T1  - A free clinic paradox
AU  - McConnel C
Y1  - 2011/04/25
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.143
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 782
EP  - 790
VL  - 171
IS  - 8
N2  - 
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.”

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.143
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.143
ER  -