About Us
Our Mission
Health Care for All – California Education Fund is dedicated to achieving a universal healthcare system through single-payer public financing. Our goal is that all California residents will have access to affordable, guaranteed, comprehensive, high-quality health care.
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
Dan Hodges – Chair
Dan Hodges was an activist in the Proposition 186 single payer ballot initiative campaign (1994); co-founder of Health Care for All – California (1995); initiator of HCA-CA’s website, www.healthcareforall.org (1998); chair of HCA’s board of directors (1998-2010); initiator of the state’s first coalition of pro-single payer advocacy organizations and labor unions, the State Strategy Group (2005-2008); participant in the formation of the following successor coalitions: Campaign for a Healthy California (2011-2013), AllCare Alliance (2013-2016), Healthy California Campaign (2016-2017), and Healthy California NOW (2018-present); author of “History of California Single Payer Legislation: 1997-2024; co-founder of Health Care for All – California Education Fund (2006); and officer of HCA-CA Ed. Fund (2006-present).
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.