According to one source,
Medicare reimbursement for hospice care has grown from $68.3 million in 1986 to $8.3 billion in 2005 and is expected to hit $45.6 billion by 2030.
It's the same thing that happened with the mortgage industry: The utopians create a government money sugar fountain, and then wonder why so many flies show up.
Come to that, entire industries exist across the board whose sole function seems to be absorbing government funding of one sort or another. And I speak as someone with experience in the space industry.
And this is what some people denigrate as "free market capitalism."