{"id":29024,"date":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/private-care-program-for-u-s-vets-gets-8-9-billion-in-budget-deal\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:10:05","slug":"private-care-program-for-u-s-vets-gets-8-9-billion-in-budget-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/private-care-program-for-u-s-vets-gets-8-9-billion-in-budget-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Care Program for U.S. Vets Gets &#36;8.9 Billion in Budget Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Under the program, veterans have wider access to private care if they have faced long wait times<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A controversial program meant to get more U.S. veterans to use private health care received $8.9 billion as part of a government spending bill approved by the House.<\/p>\n<p>Some veterans groups have warned that &#8220;cannibalizing&#8221; VA programs to pay for the Veterans Choice program could lead to privatization of VA, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the program, veterans have wider access to private care if they have faced long wait times or received treatment that was not what they expected.<\/p>\n<p>The bill provides $81 billion for VA care of 9.3 million veterans, including the $8.9 billion for private care. Another $11.3 billion for private care is expected in 2021, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a7d6fa356c89f17d380adad338c1eb70\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the program, veterans have wider access to private care if they have faced long wait times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-29024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}