25.5-1-601. Legislative declaration

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).