Description: Protect Our Care is a national advocacy campaign dedicated to defending and expanding access to affordable, high-quality, and equitable health care in the United States. The organization educates the public, engages state and federal policymakers, mobilizes grassroots supporters, and campaigns to protect the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Medicare while pushing for lower drug and insurance costs and greater health equity. Type: 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit (fiscally sponsored by the Sixteen Thirty Fund); has a sister 501(c)(3) public charity, the Protect Our Care Education Fund, fiscally sponsored by the New Venture Fund. Policies: Advocates to defend and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, protect and expand Medicaid and Medicare, lower prescription drug and insurance costs, advance reproductive health access and health equity, and oppose legislative or legal efforts to roll back coverage or cut health program funding. Funding: Primarily funded by philanthropic grants and donor contributions routed through fiscal sponsors (Sixteen Thirty Fund for the 501(c)(4) and New Venture Fund for the 501(c)(3)), supplemented by foundation grants and individual donations. Affiliates: Fiscal sponsors Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund; sister organization Protect Our Care Education Fund; founder Leslie Dach and executive director Brad Woodhouse; coalition partners that include national and state health advocacy groups, consumer organizations, and labor allies.
