Selina Simmons-Duffin
speaker
394 appearances
57 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 10 Jun
Selina Simmons-Duffin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 54 in all, peaking in Dec 2025 with 16.
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Selena Simmons-Stefan, NPR News.
Every few years, the think tank the Commonwealth Fund does a major analysis comparing the U.S.
to other countries like Canada, Australia, Japan, and Mexico.
Minera Gunja, the lead author of the latest report, says the U.S.
stands out in many negative ways,
Americans spend more on health care, avoid care because of costs, and have more preventable deaths.
The U.S.
is also an outlier on universal health coverage.
In the U.S., we're kind of going backwards.
We have bills now in place that are going to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
She mentions major funding cuts to Medicaid in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
Another point in the report, the U.S.
has fewer primary care doctors and medical school graduates than peer countries.
Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
The new service is called Just In Case Abortion Pills, and it's being offered by Planned Parenthood, Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Rebecca Gibron is the CEO.
The service is available to residents of Washington and Hawaii.
They can get it via telehealth or in person at 16 health centers.
Demand for getting abortion medication to have on hand spikes when abortion restrictions are in the news.
Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
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