{"id":127533,"date":"2026-03-02T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127533\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:45:07","slug":"nearly-20000-dropped-health-coverage-in-pennsylvania-in-february-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127533\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 20,000 dropped health coverage in Pennsylvania in February alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, PA  (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania\u2019s health insurance marketplace, &#8220;Pennie&#8221; says nearly 20,000 people dropped their health coverage in just February alone. <\/p>\n<p>Pennie reported previously that nearly 85,000 Pennsylvanians were forced to drop coverage due to rising costs. The executive director of Pennie, Devon Trolley, says that number has now increased to nearly 104,000 people statewide who had to end their coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>She blames Congress did not extend the enhanced premium tax credits, which for years helped lower costs and increase enrollment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, PA (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania\u2019s health insurance marketplace, &#8220;Pennie&#8221; says nearly 20,000 people dropped their health coverage in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-127533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}