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free clinics  

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  • Free clinics are community-based entities that provide healthcare services mostly to uninsured people at little or no cost to their patients. Free clinics are organized as private, nonprofit organizations (or programmatic components of nonprofit organizations). [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Free Clinics]

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