Rachel Bluth

Sacramento

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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Clock ticks on progressives’ tax push

3 days ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Eric He |Rachel Bluth

The dome of the California Capitol glows in the early evening in Sacramento, California. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP MONEY MAKER — This year in the California Legislature, tax season falls in June. Progressive Democrats racing against a looming deadline to approve the state budget are pressing to hike taxes on large corporations to address California’s $12 billion budget shortfall while minimizing cuts. But they haven’t agreed on how to do it and are running out of time.
Life Chronicles

6 days ago | jewishpress.com | Rachel Bluth

Dear Mrs. Bluth,Thank goodness this Passover is over! Had it lasted one more day I would have surely packed up and left with or without my husband. At this point, it makes little difference to me whether he comes with me or not as it seems he has difficulty choosing who he wishes to live with, his parents or me.
Life Chronicles

2 weeks ago | jewishpress.com | Rachel Bluth

Dear Mrs. Bluth,I won’t waste your time with a novella on why I am writing to you and get right to the core issue. I hate my adult children, all seven of them! They are determined to kill me with guilt over things they say I did to them when they were young, things I never did according to my recollections. Now that I spat out the bitter pill, I will go into a bit more detail seeing that my opening line probably leaves you somewhat confused.
There are no best friends on budget day

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Rachel Bluth |Lindsey Holden

Leaders from Planned Parenthood handed out “WE LOVE GAVIN + JEN” T-shirts on election night in 2018. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP MEDICAL DEBT: For a man who came into office calling himself the “health care governor,” filled his office with health industry insiders and enjoyed massive financial and campaign support from the health care sector, Gavin Newsom made some surprising moves to close the state’s budget shortfall.
Newsom seeks cap on free health care for undocumented immigrants as budget gap looms - POLITICO

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Rachel Bluth

The proposal marks a retreat for Newsom, who championed the ambitious and costly program.
Will Newsom make the Medi-Cal chop?

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Lindsey Holden |Rachel Bluth

Gov. Gavin Newsom has tough budgetary choices to make about the state's Medi-Cal expansion for undocumented immigrants. | Damian Dovarganes/AP PINCHING PENNIES: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget blues are shining a big spotlight on California’s heavily scrutinized health care program for undocumented immigrants.
Life Chronicles

3 weeks ago | jewishpress.com | Rachel Bluth

Dear Mrs. Bluth,I am going through a very difficult phase right now and cannot discuss it with anyone, lest they get the wrong idea. I hope you will be able to help me understand why I feel the way I do and what I can do to remedy it. I cannot turn to anyone else for fear that this will get to my parents and others who may misconstrue my problem as one that is irreparable, which I hope it is not.
Newsom’s $10 billion budget problem

1 month ago | politico.com | Eric He |Rachel Bluth |Lindsey Holden

Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely facing a state budget hole of at least $10 billion. | Noah Berger/AP DAUNTING DEFICIT: Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely staring down a $10 billion California budget hole that could even deepen to $20 billion or more.
California lawmakers are bracing for a $10 billion-plus budget hole - without federal cuts

1 month ago | politico.com | Eric He |Rachel Bluth |Lindsey Holden

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are now flying blind into budget crunch time, as tariffs and a lack of tax receipts are stoking financial uncertainty. California Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump's tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, Calif. | Noah Berger/AP SACRAMENTO, California — Gov.
Meet the (not dialysis!) clinics in SEIU’s crosshairs

1 month ago | politico.com | Rachel Bluth |Will McCarthy |Emily Schultheis

After SEIU-backed dialysis-clinic regulations appeared on California's ballot three times, the union is turning its attention to community clinics. | AP DIALYSIS OUT — For three election cycles in a row, California ballots included initiatives about how the state’s dialysis centers should operate. With that debate tabled — at least for now — the state’s most powerful collection of unions may have identified its next target to take on at the ballot.

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