{"id":19575,"date":"2022-03-09T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19575"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:43:07","slug":"sick-veterans-demand-medical-coverage-for-illnesses-caused-by-burn-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19575","title":{"rendered":"Sick veterans demand medical coverage for illnesses caused by burn pits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Quil Lawrence for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Army veteran Rafael Rivera didn&#8217;t always think much about his future or his health, especially while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, smoking cigarettes when he was deployed there for 13 months starting in May 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Having made your last will and testament three times by the time you&#8217;re 20, you don&#8217;t have thinking, long-term,&#8221; Rivera said.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/09\/1085223296\/sick-veterans-demand-medical-coverage-for-illnesses-caused-by-burn-pits\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/09\/1085223296\/sick-veterans-demand-medical-coverage-for-illnesses-caused-by-burn-pits\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"72\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" 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: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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>(By Quil Lawrence for NPR) Army veteran Rafael Rivera didn&#8217;t always think much about his future or his health, especially<\/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-19575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575","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=19575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19576,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575\/revisions\/19576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}