{"id":10507,"date":"2018-05-24T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:19:59","slug":"the-va-mission-act-wins-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10507","title":{"rendered":"The VA Mission Act wins approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VA Mission Act, which won approval from both the House and Senate, is a $52 billion reform bill that would overhaul medical care options for veterans. The legislation also includes a one-year extension of the Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 Choice Program which was scheduled to run out of money at the end of the month. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/389072-senate-sends-major-va-reform-bill-to-trumps-desk?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=63193269&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--ctmo7ueOiUewVeF42c2zmzV7jeuPs14JMicljmUz44zK2c-gaujzH5MlZo8Z7gelX81RRkBUHY3n_hcghTK3PyVwMpA&amp;_hsmi=63193269\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vietnam-M-e1460577484381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2586\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vietnam-M-e1460577484381-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/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>The VA Mission Act, which won approval from both the House and Senate, is a $52 billion reform bill that<\/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-10507","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\/10507","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=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10508,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions\/10508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}