{"id":13764,"date":"2019-08-08T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13764"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:13:12","slug":"veterans-urge-changes-before-expansion-of-va-caregivers-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13764","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Urge Changes Before Expansion Of VA Caregivers Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Quil Lawrence for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>There are times when retired Staff Sgt. Matt Lammers doesn&#8217;t look like he needs anyone&#8217;s help \u2014 like when he was competing, and winning, races at the\u00a0Department of Defense Warrior Games\u00a0in Tampa, Fla., this summer.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/08\/08\/747604472\/veterans-urge-changes-before-expansion-of-va-caregivers-program\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/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>(By Quil Lawrence for NPR) There are times when retired Staff Sgt. Matt Lammers doesn&#8217;t look like he needs anyone&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764","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=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13765,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions\/13765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}