Health Care For All (HCFA) is a Boston-based left-of-center healthcare advocacy organization. ^[1] Founded in 1982, the group advocates for expansion of government-funded health programs at the federal, state, and local level. ^[2]

HCFA supported Massachusetts’s state government-run health care takeover in 2006 and 2012 ^[3] and supports expansion of state-funded healthcare services to illegal immigrants, ^[4] opposes enforcement of immigration laws, ^[5] has said U.S. health care systems are riddled with structural racism,” ^[6] and supports the far-left Black Lives Matter movement.” ^[7]

Amy Rosenthal is HCFA’s executive director. ^[8] She has previously worked for the left-of-center Community Catalyst and left-progressive feminist Barbara Lee Family Foundation. ^[9]

History and Leadership

Health Care For All (HCFA) was founded in 1982 ^[10] to advocate at the federal, state, and local level for government-funded health care programs. HCFA supported Massachusetts’ state-government takeover of health care in 2006 in 2012. ^[11]

Amy Rosenthal has been the executive director of Health Care For All (HCFA) since 2017. ^[12] She is a lecturer at the Harvard University School of Public Health and has previously worked at the left-of-center Community Catalyst, which advocates to change hospitals from nonprofit to for-profit status; ^[13] the left-progressive feminist Barbara Lee Family Foundation; ^[14] and for the failed gubernatorial campaign of Myrth York (D-RI). ^[15]

Activities and Funding

Health Care For All (HCFA) advocates on various health care issues in Massachusetts, including expansion of the state’s government-run health care plan to illegal immigrants, ^[16] opposing enforcement of immigration laws, ^[17] supporting prescription drug reform, expanding child health services, ^[18] and advocating for patient-family advisory councils, ^[19] dental care, and other issues. ^[20]

HCFA works in conjunction with its partner organization Health Law Advocates (HLA) to lead the Immigrant Health Care Access Coalition (IHAC). ^{[21] [22]} This group opposes deportation of illegal immigrants and supports extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), programs which provide de-facto or explicit amnesty for certain classes of otherwise-illegal immigrants currently in the United States. ^[23]

HCFA supports the far-left Black Lives Matter movement and has said U.S. health care systems are “riddled with structural racism.” ^[24]

Funding

In 2020, HCFA received $20,000 from left-of-center Community Catalyst. ^[25]

In 2019, Health Care For All (HCFA) received $3,148,688 in contributions and grants, ^[26] an increase from $2,513,862 in 2018. HCFA received $57,500 from the Tufts Health Plan Foundation ^[27] and $10,000 from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2019. ^[28]

In 2018, HCFA received $180,000 from Children’s Hospital Corporation, ^[29] 45,300 from Tufts Health Plan Foundation, ^[30] and $35,180 from the left-of-center Pew Charitable Trusts. ^[31]

HCFA has also received grants worth $20,000 from the left-of-center National Institute for Reproductive Health in 2016 ^[32] and $25,000 from the Tufts Health Plan Foundation in 2015. ^[33]

Health Care For All is the parent organization of Health Law Advocates. ^{[34] [35]}