{"id":79843,"date":"2018-06-07T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79843"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:38:35","slug":"trump-signs-va-mission-act-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79843","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs VA MISSION Act of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Trump signed the VA MISSION Act of 2018 extending the life of VA Choice for veterans who can&#8217;t easily access VA healthcare, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/veterans\/signing-of-va-reform-bill-prompts-questions-about-how-to-fund-it-1.531451\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Trump, who considered the moment a major political victory, signed the VA Mission Act during a ceremony at the White House, surrounded by some of the lawmakers and veterans groups who brokered the deal to get it through Congress. During his presidential campaign, Trump described the VA as the most corrupt federal agency and promised veterans increased access to private doctors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the campaign, I also promised that we would fight for Veterans Choice. And before I knew that much about it, it just seemed to be common sense,\u201d Trump said prior to signing the bill. \u201cI\u2019ll be signing landmark legislation to provide health care choice \u2013 what a beautiful word that is, \u201cchoice,\u201d \u2013 and freedom to our amazing veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The signing ceremony finalized the end of a contentious legislative fight. Now, VA officials will initiate a rulemaking process, getting down to the nitty-gritty of deciding when veterans will be eligible to go outside the department for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>More urgently, Congress must find a way to fund it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the law will cost $52 billion over the next five years and Congress hasn&#8217;t worked out the funding, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going on the road today to Martinsburg VA for a little out-patient surgery, so you probably won&#8217;t hear from me again until tomorrow. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Trump signed the VA MISSION Act of 2018 extending the life of VA Choice &hellip; <a title=\"Trump signs VA MISSION Act of 2018\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79843\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump signs VA MISSION Act of 2018<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79843","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=79843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}