{"id":22014,"date":"2011-01-28T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22014"},"modified":"2011-01-28T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:33:34","slug":"giffords-to-get-tbi-treatment-tricare-refuses-for-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22014","title":{"rendered":"Giffords to get TBI treatment Tricare refuses for troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/blog\/item\/in-houston-rep.-giffords-could-receive-brain-injury-treatment-thousands-of-\">ProPublica reports<\/a> that Representative Gabrielle Giffords will receive treatment for head wound that Tricare has refused to approve for troops who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Giffords does end up receiving it, she\u2019ll be getting a treatment that many troops don\u2019t. As we\u2019ve reported, the Pentagon\u2019s health program, Tricare, has refused to cover cognitive rehabilitation therapy for the tens of thousands of service members who have suffered brain injuries in the line of duty. Tricare, which provides insurance-style coverage to troops and many veterans, does cover speech and occupational therapy, which are often part of cognitive rehabilitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Though top brain specialists have endorsed cognitive rehabilitation as an effective treatment for brain injury, Tricare officials have said that scientific evidence does not justify providing it comprehensively to troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve proven beyond any doubt here that I&#8217;m no brain surgeon, but it seems to me that if this treatment is good enough for a congresswoman, it&#8217;s good enough for the troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica reports that Representative Gabrielle Giffords will receive treatment for head wound that Tricare has refused &hellip; <a title=\"Giffords to get TBI treatment Tricare refuses for troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22014\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giffords to get TBI treatment Tricare refuses for troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}