Rachel Bluth
California Health Care Reporter at POLITICO
California health care reporter at POLITICO | [email protected] | DM for Signal | sneaking Diet Coke into health hearings | Formerly @calhealthline | she/her
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4 days ago |
politico.com | Rachel Bluth |Emma Anderson
“There’s broad support for the state’s Medicaid program for undocumented immigrants,” Citrin told POLITICO, adding, though, that there was some “nuance.” “I think there will be resistance among the state government to cutting Medicaid, but if they have to, presumably they might start changing which undocumented get access, maybe limiting it to children and elderly people, rather than everyone, … tinkering with that.” California has been offering Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to...
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Rachel Bluth
Planned Parenthood now sees an opening to try to protect gender-affirming care in California, similar to how the state moved to enshrine abortion rights under the first Trump administration. Several of the proposals build on shield laws and privacy protections the groups first pushed for to cover abortion providers and patients in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Rachel Bluth
The ambitious state lawmaker argues moves by Elon Musk and RFK Jr. show the Golden State must “step up” as a global leader. A bill introduced in the California Senate on Thursday would create a new state agency to fund scientific research as well as bolster vaccine access.
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Rachel Bluth |Emily Schultheis |Will McCarthy
Even the most optimistic predictions say it will be at least a year before doctors see the raises expected after the passage of Prop 35. | Mario Tama/Getty Images CASH SLOW — The powerful health care interests who put Proposition 35 on the ballot last November had a simple pitch for the complex initiative: a tax no voter paid would provide a long-awaited pay bump to doctors and hospitals who serve the state’s lowest-income residents.
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Rachel Bluth
A state lawmaker says his push to revamp school lunches “predates” the national health secretary. Democratic Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel has been pushing to get synthetic dyes and artificial preservatives out of snacks and school lunches. | Paul Sakuma/AP SACRAMENTO, California — In many ways, state lawmaker Jesse Gabriel was trying to make California healthy again before Robert F.
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Big scoop from Blake here. You won't be seeing Bill Essayli around the capitol anymore....
Scoop: President Trump has tapped California Assemblymember Bill Essayli to be the next U.S. attorney in L.A. Essayli plans to resign from the Legislature tonight and start in the role tomorrow. https://t.co/SnhzYGSrwf
RT @adamcancryn: RFK Jr.'s mass layoff plans blindsided most of his HHS workers, who found out about it from the press. ASPR now has just…
