{"id":15167,"date":"2020-02-06T10:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:17:03","slug":"paws-act-passes-the-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15167","title":{"rendered":"PAWS Act passes the House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By voice vote on Wednesday, the Puppies Assisting Wounded Service Members for Veterans Therapy Act (PAWS) was approved by the House of Representatives. \u00a0The act would have the VA award grants to nonprofit organizations that would not only provide veterans with puppies but would also cover the cost of training the puppies.\u00a0 At the present time, the VA does not coordinate with nonprofit programs that provide veterans with therapy dogs that task usually falls to the patient.\u00a0 Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house-passes-bill-to-get-therapy-dogs-for-veterans-with-ptsd\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_110101363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14770\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_110101363-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_110101363-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_110101363-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_110101363-1024x729.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By voice vote on Wednesday, the Puppies Assisting Wounded Service Members for Veterans Therapy Act (PAWS) was approved by 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-15167","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\/15167","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=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}