{"id":11781,"date":"2018-10-18T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:45:45","slug":"an-effort-to-reach-other-than-honorable-discharge-vets-in-need-of-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11781","title":{"rendered":"An effort to reach other-than-honorable-discharge vets in need of help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the thousands of veterans who have other-than-honorable (OTH) discharges who also have service-related trauma, the VA last summer started a new program which allows OTH vets to come into the VA to receive mental health care, at least for 90 days.\u00a0\u00a0 The VA last year estimated there are more than 500,000 OTH vets who now qualify for mental health care. Read attached article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/657789457\/va-struggles-to-reach-other-than-honorable-discharge-vets-in-need-of-help?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66791062&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_YdnQPYrQuKEIWat6P4Lj013vCchcdgjhCcVZRfvbzsFN1g6sGSlRF3Btki1aOjwDq38SQ7KbS7hKnVn542dhYMnXofw&amp;_hsmi=66791062\">more details 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>For the thousands of veterans who have other-than-honorable (OTH) discharges who also have service-related trauma, the VA last summer started<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","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=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11784,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions\/11784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}