C.R.S. § 25.5-1-601: Legislative declaration.

(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).