{"id":139382,"date":"2026-02-19T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:12:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-hospital-nurses-rally-after-19-days-without-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139382\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn hospital nurses rally after 19 days without health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center say they are now on Day 19 without health insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens gathered outside the hospital, demanding their benefits be restored. Nurses say the loss of coverage is not just a workplace issue but a personal one. Several shared that they rely on daily medications and ongoing treatments to manage serious health conditions, including asthma and cancer recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Some say they have been forced to ration medication or delay care while waiting for coverage to be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 reached out to The Brooklyn Hospital Center for comment but has not yet received a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center say they are now on Day 19 without health insurance coverage. Dozens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10605,98,100,99,3012,6851,3663,13319,9,24,23187,38978,63,15254],"class_list":["post-139382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-benefits","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fort-greene","tag-health-insurance","tag-hospital","tag-insurance","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nurses","tag-nurses-strike","tag-nyc","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}