{"id":257,"date":"2015-08-02T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-08-02T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:38:34","slug":"surprise-surprise-the-va-is-understaffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Surprise. The VA is Understaffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0HADLEY HEATH<span class=\"author-star-sub-heading\"> &#8211; INDEPENDENT WOMEN&#8217;S FORUM)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs has 41,500 job openings, according to a recent report from USA Today.\u00a0While the figure is shocking, the concept is not. Sadly this is just one in a series of stories of dysfunction within the VA, and yet another indictment against government-run health care in general.\u00a0Instead of remaining trapped in a broken system, veterans \u2013 and all Americans \u2013 should be free to access quality, affordable healthcare of their own choosing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/surprise-surprise-the-va-is-understaffed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0HADLEY HEATH &#8211; INDEPENDENT WOMEN&#8217;S FORUM) The Department of Veterans Affairs has 41,500 job openings, according to a recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}