Nadine:
"Our current health system is expensive and costing people their lives. This is not a system that I want to leave behind for our children. T.R. Reid said it best: 'It's a national problem—a national scandal, really—that is undermining the physical and fiscal health of every American.' I joined the HCAO Board to add my voice and energy as part of a younger generation."
Nadine was born in Canada and has navigated the Canadian and American health care system with an invisible disability. Her own personal struggle to secure costly medications to survive motivated her to secure her B.S. in Public Health from OSU and to become a local health care advocated in the Willamette Valley. It was in Corvallis, OR, that Nadine met local advocates in 2014. She has been working with HCAO ever since. While working in social services, Nadine has seen firsthand the burden that healthcare costs can have on families, a burden that puts families in situations where existing poverty would devastate a family’s income and even their health.
Nadine has taken on the work of the Legislative Committee Chair. She brings the great organizing skills needed for tracking the multiple aspects of this work with a particular focus on local resolutions. Nadine was a presenter at the National Single Payer Conference, along with Melinda St. Louis from Public Citizen
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Congratulations to Nadine for a recent appointment to the PEBB Advisory Committee.
