{"id":4873,"date":"2016-10-27T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:46:06","slug":"after-cancer-diagnosis-vet-refutes-governments-agent-orange-expert-and-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"After Cancer Diagnosis, Vet Refutes Government\u2019s Agent Orange Expert \u2014 And Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Charles Ornstein for Propublica, published Oct. 26, 2016 at 9:59 am)<\/p>\n<p>After the VA rejects his claim for benefits, an Air Force veteran challenges the findings of the government\u2019s go-to Agent Orange consultant. Six years later he emerges the rare victor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/after-cancer-diagnosis-vet-refutes-governments-agent-orange-expert-and-wins?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=36579967&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9BP8vOUR3pxs_zrGijsSC2qJi1daoo2CJinFtps-LUE7rPHu_iAvrKY03TnkLII4noDXZfjhZ1J_MNURt5GtQr6elYjg&amp;_hsmi=36579967\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/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>(By Charles Ornstein for Propublica, published Oct. 26, 2016 at 9:59 am) After the VA rejects his claim for benefits,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","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=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}