Rachel Bluth

Health care reporter, POLITICO

Health care reporter for POLITICO

Rachel Bluth on KCRW

With the narrow approval of Governor Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond, Prop 1, the work begins to build thousands of treatment beds.

CA’s Prop 1 narrowly passes to reform mental health spending

With the narrow approval of Governor Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond, Prop 1, the work begins to build thousands of treatment beds.

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