man that's a deep dive, forgot about that one
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/tea-party-debate-audience-cheered-idea-of-letting-uninsured-patients-die
to be fair his answer on this wasn't great (the churches will take care of it!), but as a physician he did actually walk this walk: I think he was known for treating patients for free and not taking Medicare.
Ron Paul's presidential run in '08 and in particular his vigorous denunciation of the Iraq War are what first energized me politically. For him to stand on those GOP stages and speak of the carnage while being booed again and again: that took more courage than the equivalent denunciations of the war on the Democratic side which were by then mainstream for Democrats.
I have since soured in a big way on his minarchism, but say what you want: dude has beliefs, is an actual thinker, sticks to his guns, and doesn't shift with the wind
Quite unlike his sellout son