50-4-103. (Temporary) Purpose. (1) The legislature and the public have recognized the continued need for evaluation and analysis of Montana's health care system. The legislature and the public support an incremental private-sector approach to health care reform with an emphasis on affordability and on access to health care. The health care advisory council is created to continue the public-private partnership in order to develop initiatives regarding health care reform to be presented to the 1997 legislature.
     (2) The health care advisory council shall monitor and evaluate implementation of recent health care reform initiatives, including small group insurance reform, the development of medicaid managed care, tort reform, changes to the antitrust statutes, voluntary purchasing pools, and the efficiency of the certificate of need process. The health care advisory council shall provide reports on the progress of these reforms to the general public and to the legislature. (Terminates June 30, 2001--sec. 3, Ch. 517, L. 1997.)

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 378, L. 1995.