Everyone in America needs quality, affordable
health care they can depend on.
The Health Care for America Now Education Fund (HCANEF) is a non-partisan coalition campaign that brings together patients, providers, and experts to take on corporate greed in healthcare and improve health coverage and outcomes for millions of people in the United States through public education, organizing, research and mobilization.
We believe:
-
healthcare is s human right and that access to quality, affordable coverage is a lynchpin to economic security, racial and gender equity, and a prosperous future.
-
that basic living conditions like freedom, employment, safety, nutrition, and education must be addressed to improve health outcomes and providing every person with the opportunity for a healthy and fulfilling life.
-
no meaningful policy change is possible in Congress or state legislatures without participation from real people who are most impacted, who can demand accountability for action and who create impact.
-
durable change requires taking on corporate price-gouging and limiting profits in every area of the health care system so that patients are prioritized over shareholders.
Blog
New Progress on Abortion Ballot Measures Marks Historic Turning Point in Advancing Reproductive Freedom and Access
Long before the Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe v. Wade decision that granted Americans the Constitutional right to abortion, advocates for reproductive freedom faced tremendous attacks from abortion opponents who passed more than 1,300 abortion...
Ten Reasons to Celebrate the IRA’s Health Care Provisions on 2nd Anniversary
August 16th, 2024, marks the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the historic law that took on Big Pharma to lower drug prices in Medicare after decades of drug corporation price-gouging. President Biden signed the new law in 2022 after...
Supreme Court Preserve Access to Medication Abortion, But More Attacks on the Horizon
The Supreme Court has started issuing June decisions in pending cases that could affect the future of abortion access and reproductive health in the United States. Given SCOTUS’ last big abortion decision, Dobbs v. Jackson, which effectively ended the Constitutional...
Providing the Health Care Everyone Deserves Depends on Workers
President Biden has repeatedly affirmed that in the United States, health care should be a right, not a privilege. But guaranteeing everyone access to the health care they need is going to require dramatic action over the coming years, including meaningful...
14 Features to Celebrate on the ACA’s 14th Anniversary
March 23, 2024 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act, the most significant and comprehensive healthcare reform since the 1960s passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The law took two years to pass, over a decade to implement and...
This Black History Month, Many Black Americans Are Still Struggling to Access the Health Care They Need
It seems inadequate to designate just one month a year Black History Month given how central Black people have been to every epoch of our nation’s development dating back to the earliest days of the Republic. Nonetheless, Black History is a good opportunity to take...
For Better Health Outcomes, Investments in Nutrition Matter
Access to quality, affordable health care is a fundamental part of ensuring that people can live healthy and fulfilling lives. The health care system should be foremost focused on improving health outcomes as shown by indicators like rates of chronic disease, lifespan...
Coverage Without Lowering Out-of-Pocket Cost Is Not Enough–It’s Time to Address Affordability
President Biden and lawmakers in Congress have made tremendous strides in increasing access to healthcare–both by expanding coverage and by lowering the cost of services like prescription drugs in Medicare. These are fantastic steps that stand in contrast to...
