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Dying in Green Bay, Wisconsin

June 11, 2009 (LPAC)—President Obama, whom American statesman Lyndon LaRouche likened to an elongated football, went to Green Bay, Wisconsin today to hold his first Town Hall meeting on his Nazi-modelled healthcare plan. LaRouche said the Town Hall could have been titled: "I'm dying to go to Green Bay."

Today's Washington Post revealed why Obama chose Green Bay to kick off his "barnstorming for early death" health care tour: "It is the findings of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice that have generated the most excitement in the Obama administration, all the way up to the Oval Office." For more than 10 years, the Dartmouth Institute has followed costs and care for seniors in Medicare, and concluded that spending more on healthcare does not stop people from dying, and if they die later, it costs more.

Green Bay is a place the Dartmouth Institute would like to make a model for the entire U.S. In the final two years of a patient's life, it found that Medicare spent an average of $46,412 per beneficiary nationwide, but in Green Bay, Medicare spent only an average of $33,334. Nationally, a senior in the last two years of life would spend an average of 19.6 days in the hospital, including 5.1 days in the intensive care unit, but in Green Bay, a senior would spend only 14.1 days in the hospital, and just 2.1 days in the ICU.

Donald Berwick, president of the Institute of Quality Improvement, says that the more doctors, drugs, tests and therapies given to people at the end of life, the unhappier they become. Jeffrey E. Thompson, the chief executive of Gunderson Lutheran Health System in LaCrosse, Wisc., which has spending patterns similar to Green Bay, boasts that it has achieved these results by persuading patients to sign medical directives that allow their lives to be ended.


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