<![CDATA[California is the land of miracles. One of these miracles is a hospice with a 97% survival rate. Indeed, people walk away from many of these hospice arrangements in Los Angeles County about as well as when they signed up. And the people arranging their "care," so to speak, drive away in the Maybachs. And so it goes in what used to be — long, long ago — the well-run Golden State. ]]>