Word: hyrum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually self-insured firms, prefer to use the stick. Employees at E.A. Miller, a meat-packing unit of ConAgra in Hyrum, Utah, are charged extra for medical coverage if they smoke. They must also wear seat belts and, if they are pregnant, attend childbirth classes, or they could lose their insurance. It seems to work. Since the plan's inception in 1990, no employee has been killed in a car accident, and the number of premature births has dropped from three in a two-year period to just two in the past five years. "We want to teach employees...