The enactment of the Colorado Health Care Task Force created a method for legislators to obtain the information necessary to develop and respond to legislative changes affecting the health care system in Colorado. In order to accomplish this, the Task Force is composed of ten legislators charged with studying emerging trends in health care and their impacts on consumers. Task Force Members Members may serve for one year, but no longer than two consecutive years. The Task Force must meet at least four times but can hold no more than six meetings in a year.
Members serve without compensation.
There is a need for continued health policy expertise in the General Assembly. Because the entire health care area is changing so quickly, and the legislature will be playing a more active role, members of the General Assembly must obtain good information on which to base health care policy decisions. Legislators do not always have the information needed to respond effectively to Colorado's rapidly evolving health care environment. Due to the complexity of this environment, legislators need time to learn about health care issues. Thus, the Task Force would take a more global view of health care policy, help educate legislators in this field, and raise the visibility level of health care issues in the General Assembly.