{"id":71579,"date":"2017-04-19T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71579"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:40:45","slug":"donald-trump-signs-bill-to-extend-veterans-choice-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71579","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Signs Bill to Extend Veterans Choice Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">President Trump signed a bill extending the Veterans Choice Program today, allowing vets to seek health care outside the VA system. The bill applies to vets who live 40 miles or more from a VA facility, or can\u2019t get an appointment within a 30-day window. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u2018Some people have to travel five hours, eight hours, and they\u2019ll have to do it on a weekly basis, and even worse than that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen anymore.\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Trump was joined by Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, who praised the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cThis is a good day for veterans,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a great day to celebrate not only what veterans have contributed to the country, but how we\u2019re making things better for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The extension of the bill passed by Congress authorized the sharing of medical records to hospitals outside the VA and modifies the procedures for reimbursement for private hospitals.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/04\/19\/donald-trump-signs-bill-to-extend-veterans-choice-program\/\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump signed a bill extending the Veterans Choice Program today, allowing vets to seek health &hellip; <a title=\"Donald Trump Signs Bill to Extend Veterans Choice Program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71579\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump Signs Bill to Extend Veterans Choice Program<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71579","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}