I'm totally with you on getting government out of paying for health care. But there do need to be clear laws about when it's permissible to "unplug" a patient, or otherwise hasten death, or there will be an awful lot of private decisions to "snuff inconvenient patients". My personal opinion is that it should be legal to give lethal injections when a decision to stop any support has been reached, after proper legal procedures. The notion that it's okay to slowly starve and dehydrate someone to death, as was done to Terri Schiavo, but not okay to end their lives quickly with no risk of suffering, stikes me as preposterous -- there's always a small risk that the patient has more awareness than the tests show, and even if the patient is utterly unaware it's still an awful thing to put relatives and medical staff through.
I don't think government laws work, and I don't think they will do anything but screw up end-of-life decisions. That's not a prediction, it's an observation -- they screw things up now. Most of the end-of-life problems arise from financial interests. Before we can apply good human sense to these questions, it is necessary to get third-party payers out of the equation and out of the decision process, for they are concerned with the money and not with the patient's best interest.