{"id":5205,"date":"2016-12-05T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2016-12-05T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:17:13","slug":"free-clinics-aim-to-fill-vas-shortfalls-in-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5205","title":{"rendered":"Free Clinics Aim To Fill VA\u2019s Shortfalls In Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Elenilson Franco, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety, first sought mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs nearly four years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/free-clinics-aim-to-fill-vas-shortfalls-in-mental-health\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=38677183&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99hOy25ZO8m1JdWi_1VRSqHHt13xsqqW1OY7iaD6Lfc0F-Exy05XZzmpSFOnDYHA-2ZQncZmsx4-KkhNLRAOnb0SiXYg&amp;_hsmi=38677183\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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