SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

If you are covered or can be covered by someone else then there should be an incentive paid to the employee not to enroll in federal health insurance. Offer 100.00 a month to employees who do not use the federal insurance.

The VA should provide healthcare to its employees as an employee benefit as a substitute for the commercial health insurance provided as an employee benefit.

The VA aspires to be the provider of the highest quality healthcare available, yet most of the 250,000 employees of the VA must seek their healthcare elsewhere. The costs of providing healthcare at the VA is lower than providing care elsewhere, but the VA pays commercial... more »

Patient have difficulty understanding, remembering, and following technical, confusing medication instructions, and so may miss, double up on, or otherwise miss-take medications. When patients fail to improve as expected, clinicians may unnecessarily increase, duplicate, or change medications. Resultant poor patient health and avoidable, prolonged, more complicated hospital admissions lead to poor health outcomes and... more »