Trivia question: What is the only expense line item in every company for which employees at every level are handed an unlimited budget—with no training in how to spend it?

The answer, of course, is health care. So why not train employees to spend their/your money wisely?

Answering that question is the goal of employee health literacy.  After all, wiser employees should make healthier decisions, right? And healthier decisions should save money – especially because America is the most overscreened, overtested, overdiagnosed, overtreated, and overmedicated society ever.

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