The more Hospice patients means bigger and better paydays for the top tier of Hospice and it's a not for profit org. (Look at what the United Way top tier did.)
When employees catch on at Hospice or try to make suggestions to improve the Hospice program, they lose their jobs.
Here's a sick thought. Eventually, they're going to run out of seniors because the baby boomers are a healthy lot. To keep the profit margin up, they can continue to operate because of really bad Florida Statutes.
Anyone who is a guardian of a person can divine their wishes when they get tired of the chronically ill person and have them killed with the seal of approval of the Florida Statutes!
Yes. They will try to refine the definition of a patient who is in need of Hospice care.
Not Dead Yet has pointed out in a brief that Greer has wrongly accepted the idea that the patient needs to reproduce her actions in order to prove she is not in a PVS. Florida Law and Federal law did not have that requirement.
This not only transgresses Florida's legal definition but also brings a new and ominous level of subjectivity into the process of determining "persistent vegetative state." The trial court's new standard would lead to inconsistent and overly broad determinations of what is or is not a "permanent vegetative state" and potentially subject thousands of people with severe cognitive disabilities to third-party enforcement of their "right" to die.
They know that. And that's why I think they're trying to add disabled people. Then they'll have both when the boomers come to the "end of life".