Our Mission

Who We Are

Health Care for All- California Education Fund is a nonprofit 501(c)3 educational organization dedicated to expanding knowledge and understanding of health care in California. All donations are tax deductible. Educating the public about the advantages of universal health care financed by a single payer mechanism is key to our work. Our current health care “system” is complex and bewildering. It takes time to become fully informed on how to achieve universal health care at a reasonable cost in California. Legislative and fiscal analyses are important to understanding health care financing and the different approaches to health care administration.

Board of Directors

Yi Shepard – Chair

Yi Shepard believes healthcare is a basic human right. She also believes the complexity of healthcare financing in the U.S. causes tremendous inefficiency which leads to unnecessary suffering. Yi believes in educating the public about a single-payer financing system that will allow access to basic healthcare for all people.

Yi received medical training prior to entering the world of accounting and taxation. She believes a modern society should have a cost-effective system that delivers care humanely and is economically viable for both its population and care providers.

Scott Thomason – Treasurer

Scott has varied experience in community leadership. He is currently on the executive committee of the Sierra Club Redwood chapter’s Napa group and the board of the Napa Valley Vine Trail coalition. He served six years on the American Canyon Community & Parks Foundation board, the last two as president. Before retiring from teaching in the Napa Unified School District, Scott worked for a decade as an executive search recruiter and as special events director for Pamakid Runners. He directed more than 100 events, including the San Francisco Marathon.

Scott has a journalism degree from the University of Tulsa. He served two years in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war before moving to California, initially working for the Sierra Club national office and as regional editor for Running Times magazine.

Devra Dallman – Secretary

Devra is a healthcare activist at the state and national levels. She supported formation of the HCA–Napa chapter in 2016 to educate local residents about the importance of creating a single payer universal healthcare system.

During the past several years, she has promoted partnership between her HCA chapter and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) in Napa and Sonoma.

Devra urges the public and elected officials to do everything within their power to stop the privatization of Medicare, including programs enabled by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) such as ACO-REACH, which the California legislature has officially opposed.