Good enough for government work

Published December 17, 2009 5:00am ET



The Office of Management and Budget has a new program, the president’s SAVE award — “a contest for Federal employees to come up with the best idea to save taxpayer dollars and make the government perform more effectively and efficiently.” After plowing through 84,670 awards they’ve selected a winner. Drumroll please:

Nancy Fichtner from Colorado thinks that veterans leaving VA hospitals should be able to take the medicine they’ve been using home with them instead of it being thrown away when they’re discharged.

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