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Selena Simmons-Duffin

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Selena Simmons-Duffin

    As of Oct. 1, refugees lose access to Medicaid across the country (opens the original)

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    The first wave of Medicaid cuts from the Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act takes effect today. Among those affected are the few groups of immigrants who had been eligible for Medicaid. As of October 1, they won't be anymore. That includes refugees and asylum seekers. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin has more. SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN, BYLINE: Mustafa Rfat has lately been fielding frantic phone calls from refugees with disabilities. MUSTAFA RFAT: I spent this past two weeks just talking with so man

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Selena Simmons-Duffin

    'It's a nightmare.' Former refugee, professor on Trump's new Medicaid policy (opens the original)

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    Mustafa Rfat has been getting frantic phone calls recently from refugees with disabilities. As of Oct. 1, refugees are losing access to Medicaid across the country because of H.R. 1, the Trump administration's major budget bill Republicans passed last summer. "I spent these past two weeks just talking with so many of them, literally just terrorized by the reality that their children with disabilities are losing coverage," he says. "For example, a father is a refugee with disabilities, with two k

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Selena Simmons-Duffin

    $100 million in teen pregnancy prevention funds remain unused. What happened? (opens the original)

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    Updated September 25, 2026 at 6:54 AM CDT Congress passed $101 million in funding for teen pregnancy prevention, and President Trump signed that into law as part of his budget bill. But with less than a week to go in the 2026 fiscal year, about $100 million of that funding remains unspent. According to a letter from members of Congress shared exclusively with NPR, the Department of Health and Human Services has spent about $500,000 of the $101 million it is obligated to give out in grants to org

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Selena Simmons-Duffin

    Congress passed $100 million for teen pregnancy prevention. Most of it is untouched (opens the original)

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    Updated September 25, 2026 at 6:21 AM PDT Congress passed $101 million in funding for teen pregnancy prevention, and President Trump signed that into law as part of his budget bill. But with less than a week to go in the 2026 fiscal year, about $100 million of that funding remains unspent. According to a letter from members of Congress shared exclusively with NPR, the Department of Health and Human Services has spent about $500,000 of the $101 million it is obligated to give out in grants to org

  5. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Selena Simmons-Duffin

    Trump administration drops 760,000 Americans from ACA coverage, citing fraud (opens the original)

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    The Trump administration says it canceled health insurance for what it calls phantom enrollees. Officials are not sharing details of how they decided the 760,000 names did not represent real people. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports. SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN, BYLINE: The enrollments in question were on HealthCare.gov, the marketplace set up by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. This is for people who don't get insurance from their job or a public program, like Medicare or Medicaid.

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