Plans for 2011/2012
The fight to fully implement health care reform – through 2014 and beyond – will be hard, complex and take a massive effort beyond the scale most have anticipated. With our comprehensive campaign approach and proven track record, the Health Care for America Education Fund (HCAEF) (with our c4 partner, Health Care for America Now) is uniquely positioned to carry out key implementation activities and see that the law’s promise is kept. But what makes HCAEF unique is even more than our campaign approach: it’s our action model. We identify significant public policy needs, take responsibility for leading the campaign to address those needs, and work with a broad group of organizations and individuals on all the steps to get it done.
HCAEF’s key role in implementation of the Affordable Care Act includes grassroots organizing and aggressive, multi-dimensional campaigns that confront corporate power, including:
- Insurance Accountability: A major and unparalleled focus of HCAEF is insurance accountability and consumer protections, which include a range of issues, from state exchanges to rate review. And when it comes to shining a light on the insurance industry and other interests that work to undermine the law, HCAEF stands alone.
- Multi-Dimensional Campaigns: HCAEF brings a methodical and intense campaign style to all issues we work on: big, small, national or state. We run comprehensive campaigns that involve grassroots organizing, communications, online activism, lobbying and much more.
- State Campaigns: HCAEF helps our state partners run comprehensive state campaigns for the critical policy changes required to implement the federal law. Our partners have enduring coalitions with deep roots in the community, histories of successful grassroots organizing and meaningful relationships across the board.
- Powerful Coalition: HCAEF has built a diverse and powerful coalition of labor and community organizations – nationally and in the states – that can mobilize people, organizations and policy-makers.
- Building Capacity: From its beginning, HCAEF has brought a commitment to building lasting capacity across the country. We have worked hard to use a single-issue campaign to increase the multi-issue organizing capacity of state-based and community organizations and national HCAEF partners. We believe that good organizing campaigns are only as good as the organizations they help build.
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