{"id":20876,"date":"2014-06-10T17:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20876"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:26:49","slug":"interim-va-chief-adopts-boehner%e2%80%99s-private-option-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20876\/interim-va-chief-adopts-boehner%e2%80%99s-private-option-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim VA Chief Adopts Boehner\u2019s Private Option Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20835\/boehner-to-obama-all-vets-on-va-wait-lists-should-get-private-option\/\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter<\/a> to President Barack Obama demanding that \u201cany veteran unable to obtain an appointment within 30 days [have] the option to receive non-VA care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week it was revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/va-audit-57000-veterans-waiting-more-than-90-days-for-appointment-at-medical-facilities\/2014\/06\/09\/599d26ee-f014-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">57,000 veterans have been waiting 90 days or longer<\/a> for care from VA facilities.<\/p>\n<p>But at a time when the White House is dithering, the acting VA chief is adopting Boehner\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interim VA secretary said he would spend $300 million to increase hours for VA medical staffers and contract with private clinics to see veterans who are unable to get care through VA medical centers,\u201d reports the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Sloan Gibson, the temporary VA secretary, for leveraging the private sector to care for those who\u2019ve rendered the highest public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent a letter to President Barack Obama demanding that \u201cany veteran unable to obtain an appointment within 30 days [have] the option to receive non-VA care.\u201d This week it was revealed that 57,000 veterans have been waiting 90 days or longer for care from VA facilities. But at [&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":[143,4014,3308,1057,4517,3768],"class_list":["post-20876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-care","tag-health","tag-john-boehner","tag-va","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876","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=20876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20879,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876\/revisions\/20879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}