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: 1997-2021; co-founder of Health Care for All – California Education Fund (2006); and officer of HCA-CA Ed. Fund (2006-present).
Yi Shepard
Treasurer
She believes that healthcare reform is not a political movement; it is a human rights movement. The probability of needing medical care is equal and guaranteed for all of us by nature, and yet the probability of receiving medical care is unequal and not guaranteed under the current system in this richest country in human history.
Yi has professional training and background in providing tax services to businesses, which allows her to see how our current healthcare system violates the basic economic principles that underlie any efficient market.