http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45877962/ns/health-health_care/#.TwZ1ujWLssI

'"A national hospice company improperly cycled patients through nursing homes and hospice with a goal of making as much profit as possible from Medicare, according to a whistleblower lawsuit announced this week.

"Federal attorneys also sued the hospice

company, AseraCare, alleging it milked Medicare’s hospice benefit by pressuring its employees to enroll people into hospice who weren’t dying and resisted discharging them despite evidence they weren’t deteriorating. One hospice patient who should have been immobile from end-stage heart disease was healthy enough to go to his granddaughter’s graduation and a berry-picking excursion with a friend, the government charges."

No one has mentioned what the end of life was like for the patients of these folks who are squeezing every cent they can out of the folks who are dying. If I were vindictive I might hope to their God that Libertarians and conservatives find their way into this private enterprise, profit-making company's hands at the ends of their lives.

And I'm vindictive. They and their families deserve to be at the tender mercies of these companies.