{"id":10342,"date":"2018-05-07T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2018-05-07T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:10:48","slug":"maintaining-internal-systems-and-strengthening-integrated-outside-networks-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10342","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">A bill called the Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act, includes $5.2 billion to keep the current Veterans Choice program alive for another year. The bill has been introduced in the House to make the program permanent and revamp it to expand private healthcare options for veterans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/veterans-choice-program-could-get-a-makeover\/522941\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202018-05-07%20Healthcare%20Dive%20%5Bissue:15215%5D&amp;utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8765\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill called the Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act, includes $5.2 billion to keep the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}