{"id":20835,"date":"2014-06-04T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20835"},"modified":"2014-06-04T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:00:22","slug":"boehner-to-obama-all-vets-on-va-wait-lists-should-get-private-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20835\/boehner-to-obama-all-vets-on-va-wait-lists-should-get-private-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner to Obama: All Vets on VA Wait Lists Should Get Private Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll veterans on waiting lists should be able to easily access care outside the VA without waiting for a potentially corrupt facility to approve their request,\u201d House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) writes today in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2549298?slideout=1 \" target=\"_blank\">a letter<\/a> to President Barack Obama. \u201cOur veterans should not be left in limbo, relying on what your own audit acknowledges is a \u2018systematic lack of integrity within some Veterans Health Administration facilities.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an immediate remedy Boehner calls on Obama to support legislation coming from the House Veterans Affairs Committee that would allow \u201cany veteran unable to obtain an appointment within 30 days the option to receive non-VA care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the president and his congressional allies have a better alternative they better put it forward. Too many veterans are waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll veterans on waiting lists should be able to easily access care outside the VA without waiting for a potentially corrupt facility to approve their request,\u201d House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) writes today in a letter to President Barack Obama. \u201cOur veterans should not be left in limbo, relying on what your own audit acknowledges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,12,3949,1057,4517,3768],"class_list":["post-20835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-health-care","tag-house","tag-john-boehner","tag-va","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20839,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835\/revisions\/20839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}