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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
On Roe v. Wade’s 50th Anniversary, Millions of Patients are Unable To Access Abortion
2023 marks the first year in half a century that women in the United States do not have the Constitutional right to access abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark January 22, 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade made abortion legal under the Fourteenth Amendment as a...
President Biden’s Top 10 Healthcare Victories of 2022
In 2022, President Biden and Congressional Democrats delivered on their promises by continuing to expand access to quality, affordable healthcare, and by making historic improvements to Medicare prescription drug coverage that will both lower prices and reduce...
HCANEF Partner Spotlight: Virginia Organizing Fighting for Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice in Wake of SCOTUS Repeal of Abortion Rights
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs’ decision, Virginia Organizing, an HCANEF partner in Virginia, has been bringing people together to protect abortion access in the Commonwealth. Immediately following the June 24th decision, the State Governing Board of Virginia...
Congratulations to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
When long-time Speaker and health care champion Nancy Pelosi recently announced the end of her tenure, a new Democratic leader was already poised to step up in the House of Representatives. Today, House Democrats voted unanimously to elect a new leader, who will be...
Thank you, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
After almost 20 years of leadership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last month she would not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress, making way for a new generation of Democratic leaders and leaving a tremendous legacy that materially improved...
Voters Pick Abortion Rights Over Extremist Bans in Midterm Elections
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, after 50 years of guaranteed abortion rights and access, was a wake-up call to many Americans. On the eve of the 2022 mid-term elections, abortion was illegal in a quarter of the country. The...
SCOTUS Dobbs’ Decision Overturns Constitutional Right to Abortion Activists Fight Back
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court turned back the clock fifty years by reversing a basic Constitutional freedom that for decades has enabled pregnant people to make decisions about their own futures: the right to have an abortion. For decades, two-thirds of the...
The Looming Supreme Court Decision on Abortion
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that, next term, it would hear a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi abortion law, which conservative legal scholars have said provides an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that ensures civil rights for...