{"id":15725,"date":"2020-04-10T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15725"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:37:35","slug":"va-boost-protections-for-veterans-with-help-from-the-cares-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15725","title":{"rendered":"VA Boost Protections for Veterans with help from the CARES Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act or CARES Act is best known as a law providing $2.2 trillion in economic relief to Americans, it also has language critical to ensuring the safety of Veterans.\u00a0 According to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, \u201cSince the President signed the CARES Act, the VA has been moving quickly to implement President\u2019s intent to hire new staff, take care of homeless Veterans, use our cutting-edge telehealth technology to keep appointments, and help state-run Veterans homes.\u201d Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mychesco.com\/a\/news\/national\/cares-act-helping-va-boost-protections-for-veterans\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act or CARES Act is best known as a law providing $2.2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-legislative-update","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725","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=15725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15726,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725\/revisions\/15726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}