{"id":168046,"date":"2025-09-19T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168046\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:30:12","slug":"nurses-health-care-workers-urge-sen-fetterman-to-protect-insurance-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168046\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses, health care workers urge Sen. Fetterman to protect insurance premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Nurses warn of health insurance spikes\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DRFLDNKYKFESTFPXRK6GLS6MHM.png\"\/>Scores of nurses and health care workers on Friday sounded the alarm of the potential of hundreds of thousands of Commonwealth residents being kicked off their insurance or seeing enormous spikes if tax credits are not extended.Screenshot from video<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YHKDMJFUBRFLNHD4UK2V2SKMMI\">Scores of nurses and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/topic\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/topic\/health\/\">health care<\/a> workers from across Pennsylvania on Friday marched to Sen. John Fetterman\u2019s Harrisburg office to urge him to protect affordable health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OYHEKTBE7NCMXBOJLPADTALEZM\">The workers delivered a giant letter to the Democratic senator signed by hundreds of nurses and caregivers, urging him to safeguard the premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act that almost half a million Pennsylvanians rely on through the state\u2019s health insurance marketplace, Pennie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scores of nurses and health care workers on Friday sounded the alarm of the potential of hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-168046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}