"This does not compute for me that he's doing it to protect some cushy deal with the hospices. I sense something bigger and a lot meaner. He seems to have his heart in it too"
Please read my post again, out loud. Sadly, I think it covers the "bigger and a lot meaner" criteria, terribly well.
What I need to read more carefully is where my cursor is parked! I was trying to reply to a different post. Sorry.