{"id":31431,"date":"2009-10-23T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"b8e9233b-f442-4a48-817a-94c219496ea2"},"modified":"2009-10-23T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:24:10","slug":"new-law-speeds-up-vas-beleaguered-budget-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/31431","title":{"rendered":"New Law Speeds Up VA&#8217;s Beleaguered Budget Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama signed a law Thursday to grease the Veterans Affairs Department&#8217;s troubled budgeting process by changing the schedule to allocate funds a year in advance, the <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2009\/10\/22\/obama_signs_law_ending_budget.html?wprss=44\">Washington Post<\/a> reports. The Veterans Health Care and Budget Reform and Transparency Act &#8220;means timely, sufficient and predictable funding from year to year. For VA hospitals and clinics, it means more time to budget, to recruit high-quality professionals, and to invest in new health care equipment,&#8221; Obama said (Shear, 10\/22). <\/p>\n<p>The VA budget has emerged from Congress late 20 of the past 23 years, which, for the department&#8217;s health system, has led to &#8220;delays in replacing medical equipment or insufficient staff to handle their work,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hc8qtQjB9Pg7OhmOkoQcKC12kB5wD9BGB6RO1\">Associated Press<\/a> reports. &#8220;The VA provides health care for more than 23 million American veterans; as many as a quarter of the nation&#8217;s population qualifies for VA coverage, either as veterans or family members of veterans&#8221; (10\/22). <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/azd-tEysnHY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama signed a law Thursday to grease the Veterans Affairs Department&#8217;s troubled budgeting process by changing the schedule to allocate funds a year in advance, the Washington Post reports. The Veterans Health Care and Budget Reform and Transparency Act &#8220;means timely, sufficient and predictable funding from year to year. For VA hospitals and clinics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}