(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).
Source: L. 2017: Entire part added, (HB 17-1024), ch. 7, p. 19, � 1, effective August 9.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 25-1-901 as it existed prior to 2017.