"misleading given the fact that George W. Bush signed off on the Futile Care Law which empowered spouses with sole discretion to starve their failing spouses in Texas."
You are being misled by the MSM.
The Texas law --- actually regulation started under Ann Richards --- WAS that, with 3 days notice, a hospital could "allow a patient to die" (kill) if it was futile, even over the next-of-kin's objection.
Bush opposed this. The best he could get out of the Democratically-controlled Texas legislature was: (1) the hospital could ask to pull the plug; (2) next-of-kin could oppose and appeal to the Hospital's ethics board (which was a two-week or one month process); and (3) if the appeal failed, the next-of-kin had 10 days to find a hospital to take in the patient (there are many who do so in Texas; chiefly most any Catholic hospital).
Thank you for clearing up this misperception.