{"id":8710,"date":"2017-11-22T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2017-11-22T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:36:00","slug":"broadening-the-role-of-private-sector-healthcare-in-providing-care-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8710","title":{"rendered":"Broadening the role of Private Sector Healthcare in Providing care for Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Shulkin, Veterans Affairs secretary, has been quoted saying in a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> report, \u201cThe direction I\u2019m taking this is to give veterans more choice in their care, and be the decision maker for their care, which I fundamentally believe is a concept that has to be implemented.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2017\/11\/21\/va-seeks-greater-role-for-private-health-care-merg?kw=VA+seeks+greater+role+for+private+health+care%2C+merger+with+TRICARE&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20171122&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Daily&amp;page_all=1\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file0001317899408veterans-military-soldiers-700x466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7914\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file0001317899408veterans-military-soldiers-700x466-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file0001317899408veterans-military-soldiers-700x466-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file0001317899408veterans-military-soldiers-700x466.jpg 700w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Shulkin, Veterans Affairs secretary, has been quoted saying in a Wall Street Journal report, \u201cThe direction I\u2019m taking this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-redesign","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}