Jump to full article: CBS, 2006-01-20
Intro: So there's a full time doctor and a new clinic, which is free to workers and families enrolled in the company medical plan. There is a drive through pharmacy with generic drugs — and right next door: the new gym. It's also free to those who work out more than twice a week. Otherwise, it's just ten dollars a month.
Presiding over this $5 million gamble is CEO Jim Hagedorn.
"It's partly about money and keeping our costs under control," Hagedorn told CBS News correspondent Jerry Bowen. "And it's partly about saying, 'Why would you wanna work a whole career here at Scotts, retire and die?'"
It all sounds so good — and if it works it may become the national model for curbing corporate health care costs. But it's a carrot and stick approach.
The stick is what happens to smokers. If they won't quit, they won't have a job at Scotts. . . .
Change is never easy, but it's the new reality for these workers. And if it works, everybody's bottom line will look better.
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