{"id":24316,"date":"2025-04-28T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24316"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:24:06","slug":"va-health-care-a-lifeline-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24316","title":{"rendered":"VA health care: A lifeline for Veterans \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVA is one of the unsung heroes,\u201d said David Cohen, a Navy Veteran who receives care at the Manhattan VA Medical Center in New York City. Since filing his first medical claim with VA, Cohen has found a community of advocates\u2014from fellow Veterans at the Virginia Department of Veteran Services where he was last stationed to his VA care team in New York City.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/139649\/va-health-care-a-lifeline-for-veterans\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/139649\/va-health-care-a-lifeline-for-veterans\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) \u201cVA is one of the unsung heroes,\u201d said David Cohen, a Navy Veteran who receives care at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,245],"class_list":["post-24316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316","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=24316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24317,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}