content: Pretty sure you could probably improvise something in the UK, but Brita are a bunch of pussies. Bomb is something I could think off the top of my head. But I'm fairly certain they can't force you to hold your kid at a hospital in the US. You simply have to sign a waver that states you understand that you were advised by the doctor about the course of treatment and you chose not to follow their recommendations. At most there would be situations like a dad doesn't have primary custody and the mom signed off to terminate life, or the insurance company would no longer pay for treatment so they won't continue to house/treat your kid (I'm not sure if the insurance company would be obligated to pay for equipment to treat at home though). Honestly  I don't consider healthcare a right, which is why I don't like socialized medicine, and if your kid dies to something, then it was just unlucky you that your kid was gonna dies. I think that in the time we live in most kids are living on borrowed time, as the mortality rate for kids has decreased substantially since medicine was in its infancy. I'm not gonna highjack someone's hard work at med school and tell them they have to treat my kid. It is my responsibility and only my responsibility to make sure that my child has everything she needs to make it to adulthood and if she doesn't make it, I either am not fulfilling my role correctly, or there was a circumstance that I couldn't have done anything. I do actually have a kid, so I'm saying this as a parent just so no one asks later...