{"id":192634,"date":"2009-03-11T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/11\/what-is-shinseki-thinking\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:27:00","slug":"what-is-shinseki-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/11\/what-is-shinseki-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Shinseki Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Eric Shinseki is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/03\/10\/veterans.health.insurance\/index.html\">considering billing veterans&#8217; private insurance companies for the treatment of service related injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that this is an attempt to bill veterans, just extract more money from their insurers, but it&#8217;s a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very bad<\/span> idea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It means that they will fight their insurance companies over billing.<\/li>\n<li>It raises the costs of employers of hiring disabled vets.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first step on a slippery slope to privatizing VA care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Put a stake through its heart now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Eric Shinseki is considering billing veterans&#8217; private insurance companies for the treatment of service related injuries. I don&#8217;t think that this is an attempt to bill veterans, just extract more money from their insurers, but it&#8217;s a very bad idea: It means that they will fight their insurance companies over billing. It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1006,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-military","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}