Colorado Statutes

§ 25.5-1-601 — Legislative declaration

Colorado·Title 25.5 Health·Art. Department of
(1)The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:
(a)Physicians engaged in family medicine are in critically short supply in this state;
(b)Because of the distribution of such physicians, many rural and urban areas of the state are underserved;
(c)A significant portion of the state population is medically underserved because of indigency;
(d)Family physicians provide health care to all segments of the population;
(e)The provision of more competent family physicians is a public purpose of great importance; and
(f)The creation of the commission on family medicine is a desirable, necessary, and cost-effective means of addressing the needs described in this subsection (1).

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Legislative History

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added, (HB 17-1024), ch. 7, p. 19, � 1, effective August 9.

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