A Federal Employee won recognition from President Obama by proposing an idea that could save the Federal Government up to $3.8 million annually.

The SAVE program (Securing Americans Value and Efficiency Award) recognizes citizens that come up with ways to save the Federal Government money.

This Federal Employee’s idea was to allow patients who leave VA hospitals to keep inhalers, eye drops or other leftover medications when they leave the hospital.  Until now, the VA would throw away those medicines, and then help the veteran pay for new medication after they go home.  Essentially, the VA was paying twice for these medications.

Read more about this Federal Employee by cutting and pasting this link:  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/12/21/obama-awards-budget-minded-federal-employee/