America’s Health & Wellness System is designed to incorporate wellness into each American’s life to create better long term health and fewer chronic health issues. This plan represents a radical departure from our current health care system in several key ways: - It is a sustainable, cost‐effective and creative way to make improvements in the health status of each American - It puts purchasing power back into the consumer’s hands - It is a plan that covers nearly all American’s regardless of the funding source for their health care dollars -It equalizes access to health care services across demographic and income barriers - It is built on the American ideals of self‐responsibility, equality and reward for hard work

1. America’s Wellness Plan
Individual Choice.
Empowered Consumers.
Community Wellness.

2. Is our current healthcare system
making us fat?

3. The Facts
 The health of Americans.
 63% of Americans are overweight or obese
 40% of every dollar spent on food is spent on food prepared
outside the home
 1 in 4 adults gets no leisure time physical activity
 Between 1987 and 2010, the number of American’s
diagnosed with diabetes tripled to 20.9 million
 The cost of healthcare.
 Health expenditures in 2010 were nearly $2.6 trillion
 A 10x increase from 1980

4. The Impact
 Obesity’s Economic Impact:
 $190 billion in annual medical costs
 $5 billion annually in additional jet fuel needed to fly heavier
passengers
 $4 billion annually for additional gasoline for cars to carry
heavier passengers
 $30 billion annually for presenteeism
 $6.4 billion annually for absenteeism

5. The Challenge
 Our healthcare system is not able to address meaningful
health and wellness at the community level.
 Access varies widely
 Income disparities impact health
 Medical school does not include meaningful training on
nutrition and exercise

6. High
Deductible
Insurance
Policy
Wellness
Spending
Account
Wellness Plan
The Solution
America’s Wellness Plan

7. Wellness Plan
 Serves as “Wellness Home”
 4 tiered plan based on health status
 Determines frequency of health coach meetings
 Each enrollee completes Annual Health Improvement Plan
 Incentives and Measurement
 Enrollees: Premium savings for improved health status
 Wellness Plans: Measured by improvement in enrollees health
status
 20 Wellness Plans per region; 300 nationwide (procured by
DHHS)

8. Wellness Spending Account
 Debit-card for consumers to use for certified health and
wellness products and services
 All American’s have the same Wellness Spending
Account – increased consumer power, access and
equality
 Four WSA Administrators (procured by DHHS)

9. High Deductible Insurance Policy
 Three Enrollment Tiers determined by Baseline Health
Status evaluation
 Low risk
 Moderate risk
 High risk
 Ten HDIPs available in each area; 150 nationwide
(procured by DHHS)
 Consumers choose plan each year

10. Administrative Components
 Wellness Spending Account Administrators (WSAA): 4
nationwide (procured by DHHS)
 Enrollment Broker: One per state (procured by states)
 Program Integrity: 15 contractors (procured by DHHS)
 Independent Quality Monitoring and Evaluation: One per
state (procured by states)

11. Why?
 The focus of a healthcare system should be to help
people get healthy and stay healthy
 Surgeries, drugs and medical innovations add costs to
the system
 Our nation’s ability to thrive is based on our citizens’
ability to thrive

12. About the Author
 Joanne M. Frederick is the President and CEO of Market Strategies
a consulting firm with 20+ years of experience in the public sector
healthcare marketplace.
 www.msiworld.com
 In 2005, she founded Cybercise, Inc. to help people get more
exercise.
 www.cyber-cise.com
 In 2012, she published Move.Eat.Be. a six-month wellness program
designed to help people reclaim their health.
 www.moveeatbe.com
 For speaking engagements, please contact us through:
https://speakerfile.com/speakers/joanne.frederick