Health Care For All

05/07/2026

As we head into Mental Health Awareness Month, HCFA joined an event held at the Health Policy Commission Behavioral Health Workforce Center highlighting their research and findings about the challenges and opportunities to create a more sustainable behavioral health workforce in Massachusetts. The report and event highlighted the inequities in reimbursement rates for behavioral health services and clinicians and makes actionable recommendations to move towards a more sustainable ways to support the workforce and increase access to services.

05/04/2026

It's Children's Mental Health Week! Thanks to our friends and allies at Parent/Professional Advocacy League for these great actions + resources.

04/23/2026

HCFA joined the Atrius Health Equity Foundation, Undue Medical Debt and Health Law Advocates and helped facilitate a a medical debt training session for several of our community-based organization partners last week. Attendees heard from experts at HLA, and developed skills to help community members understand and resolve medical debt. HCFA is eager to be working in partnership with community organizations across eastern Massachusetts to eliminate medical debt and protect people from long term financial harm!

photo credit: Atrius Health Equity Foundation

04/20/2026

Health Care For All (HCFA) is seeking community- and faith-based organizations to conduct outreach, education and MassHealth enrollment assistance to support residents in maintaining their coverage as new Federal Medicaid requirements take effect. Join us in taking action to ensure that people across Massachusetts can understand the changes, renew their health coverage, and stay connected to care!

Learn more about this funding opportunity and apply here: https://hcfama.org/fy27-medicaid-expansion-population-outreach-education-enrollment-grant/

04/16/2026

Thanks to GBH for looking back at Massachusetts health reform, and speaking to HCFA about what challenges remain when it comes to accessing affordable and equitable health care here in Massachusetts. Read the article here: https://hcfama.org/20-years-after-romneycare-mass-leads-nation-in-health-coverage-but-cost-challenges-remain-gbh-april-9-2026/

04/15/2026

We’re grateful to be featured in this The Boston Globe article assessing the health coverage landscape 20 years after the passage of Massachusetts health reform.

Read it here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/13/business/romneycare-health-care-massachusetts-mitt-romney/

04/14/2026

Health Care For All is thrilled to share that our next Executive Director will be Jennifer Lemmerman. Jennifer comes to us with a wealth of health policy, advocacy, and nonprofit leadership experience. She'll hit the ground running to advance HCFA's mission starting on May 11!

Read our press release here: https://hcfama.org/press-statement-experienced-non-profit-advocacy-leader-jennifer-lemmerman-named-executive-director-of-health-care-for-all-april-14-2026/

04/13/2026

HCFA was honored to join the special gathering at Faneuil Hall celebrating the 20th anniversary of the passage of Chapter 58, the landmark Massachusetts health reform law. The event featured current and former governors, state legislators, people impacted by the law, advocates, faith leaders, industry stakeholders and more. We're proud of our Commonwealth's leadership on expanding health coverage - let's continue to show the way!

04/13/2026

It's the 20th anniversary of Massachusetts health reform, the key statewide coverage expansion law that served as a model for the Affordable Care Act.

Read our Q+A with HCFA Senior Director Hannah Frigand, who reflects back on what it was like talking to people on HCFA's HelpLine before and after the law's passage: https://hcfama.org/how-did-massachusetts-health-reform-transform-peoples-lives-one-hcfa-senior-director-reflects-back/

04/10/2026

Thank you to Mike Levine for his decade of leadership to improve the health and wellbeing of MassHealth members through challenging times. HCFA is especially appreciative of our partnership on the MassHealth Redetermination campaign. Best of luck to him in this role!

Michael Levine, a Massachusetts Medicaid executive, is the sole nominee to lead the city’s homeless department. Mayor Daniel Lurie will tap him to be the next director of the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, according to multiple sources close to the process. ⁠
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Lurie himself put Levine before the Homelessness Oversight Commission, sources said. ⁠
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“Mike oversees a budget of $23 billion, he has 1,000 employees, tens of thousands of providers contract with MassHealth, he’s done over 600 audits and MassHealth has 2 million clients, more than 10,000 of which are homeless,” commissioner Sharky Laguana said. ⁠
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The current head of the homeless department, Shireen McSpadden, will step down as the city’s homelessness department director on June 30, marking the end of a five-year tenure that began in 2021 under former Mayor London Breed. ⁠ ⁠
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📸: Mariana Garcia

04/09/2026