{"id":5014,"date":"2016-11-12T04:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:34:44","slug":"4-things-trump-can-do-to-improve-mental-health-care-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5014","title":{"rendered":"4 things Trump can do to improve mental health care for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Leah Samuel for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">D<\/span>onald Trump will take office in January with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/03\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-veterans.html\" target=\"_blank\">strong support<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> among\u00a0veterans, and he\u2019s made reforms to\u00a0the Department of Veterans Affairs a key part of his platform. When it comes to one of the biggest health issues facing vets \u2014 that of mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder\u00a0\u2014 there\u2019s a lot more to be done. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/11\/11\/veterans-trump-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Leah Samuel for STAT) Donald Trump will take office in January with strong support1 among\u00a0veterans, and he\u2019s made reforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014","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=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}