I'm Nancy Nathanson, State Representative for District 13 in the House of Representatives, and you've found my website. Welcome! District 13 includes north Eugene's Harlow, Cal Young, Northeast, Goodpasture, River Road, and Santa Clara neighborhoods. My contact information is above, and you can find additional resources to the left, including links to my newsletters, testimony, and news releases under the News and Information tab.
Over the past several years, I have passed bills on health care insurance rates and prescription drugs, consumer protection, renter fee protection, and accountability for public contracts. I’m proud of the local programs I’ve promoted that wind up benefiting the entire state, like funding for school health centers, and an earthquake early warning system and wildfire detection camera system at UO’s Oregon Hazards Lab. I’ve helped bring funding and solve problems for Relief Nurseries, Looking Glass, and Civic Park. And much more you can read about here.
In 2024, I worked to safeguard access to health care following the closure of the PeaceHealth University District hospital in Eugene, securing $1.3 M for an additional ambulance crew and $3.2 M for an Innovation Fund which has already started to support new and expanded services. And I passed legislation to rein in Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), prescription drug intermediaries that negotiate between pharmacies, health insurers, wholesalers, and pharmaceutical companies.
I plan to introduce legislation to address a number of different topics in the 2025 legislative session. Here are a few of the topic areas I’ve been working on:
- Corporate Practice of Medicine: Prohibit non-compete and non-disclosure contract language to ensure physicians can continue work in their communities when they leave a particular group, and clarify the spirit and intent of requirements for physician (not corporate) ownership and control of physician practices.
- Urgent care clinics. Definitions and registration for urgent care clinics. This should be helpful for patients and people who refer patients (such as nurse advice lines) to know what services will be available.
- Streamlining process and smoothing out bureaucracy for local human service providers. Improve credentialing and criminal background check processes and reduce backlogs so that counselors and therapists can get to work and see patients who are waiting for help.
My committee assignments are largely the same as in the previous session. I'll have a gavel (chair, or co-chair a joint House-Senate committee) for House Revenue and Joint Information Management and Technology and serve on Joint Transportation and Joint Ways and Means-Capital Construction.
Please don't hesitate to contact my office if I can be of service to you.
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