{"id":6314,"date":"2017-03-30T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:00:05","slug":"the-va-is-on-a-path-toward-recovery-secretary-of-veterans-affairs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6314","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The VA Is On A Path Toward Recovery,&#8217; Secretary Of Veterans Affairs Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rebecca Hersher for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Veterans Affairs<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/bios\/secva.asp\">David Shulkin<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>says the Department of Veterans Affairs &#8220;is on a path toward recovery.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/03\/30\/521937557\/the-va-is-on-a-path-toward-recovery-secretary-of-veterans-affairs-says?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=49551241&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--PX74vRa91B_lNM3JGU9VkxC54VOc7Xvpm18x_W8tJ28q_tidepw27ebjLNVSN1bx_K9tH9JOWSIf9ESLEouwn0G9SKw&amp;_hsmi=49551241\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><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 Rebecca Hersher for NPR) Secretary of Veterans Affairs\u00a0David Shulkin\u00a0says the Department of Veterans Affairs &#8220;is on a path toward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions\/6315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}