Health Care For America Now

How is HCAN funded?
HCAN is primarily by our member organizations, individual contributions, and foundations, including a major grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies. HCAN is a section 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization. Members of the HCAN coalition include a wide range of nonprofit and advocacy organizations that are working to promote quality, affordable health care for everyone in America. HCAN’s members are tax-exempt public charities, advocacy organizations, and unions. HCAN and each member organization only conduct and fund only those activities appropriate to their tax and election law status. Additionally, HCAN is related to Health Care for America Education Fund, a project of The Tides Foundation, a section 501(c)(3) public charity.

How is HCAN governed?
The HCAN Steering Committee is made up of the following organizations: ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, Communications Workers of America, MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, National Women’s Law Center, SEIU, UFCW, USAction, and Working America.

Are you part of the Obama administration?
No. However, HCAN is working with the Obama administration to ensure health care reform in 2009 meets the HCAN principles that President Obama has endorsed. For example, many HCAN members participated in the White House Health Care Policy Summit sponsored by President Obama in Washington, DC, and our field partners attended the regional health care forums nationwide.

How can I join HCAN?
Join now by going to HealthCareforAmericaNow.org. We’ll keep you in touch with what’s going in Washington and in your state and community to win quality, affordable health care for all this year. We’ll let you know how you can help. It could be an action alert to contact your Member of Congress, join a rally, share your personal story, or pass along an email. Sign up for HCAN Alerts.

What you can do to help

• Sign Up to join HCAN. By entering your email address, you’ll receive important updates and email alerts from the campaign.
• Call your Member of Congress and urge him/her to support health care reform in 2009.
• Volunteer with your local HCAN group. We have organizations in 46 states and DC so look up your local chapter and start helping.
• Share Your Story. HCAN relies on stories of people like you to put a human face on a complex public policy issue. We provide these stories to the media, lawmakers, and health care advocates to illustrate the extreme need for health care reform in 2009. If you have a story about how the health care system or your insurance has failed you, we want to hear about it. Please visit our Share Your Story page to submit your personal story.