Not so expensive if they would have trained (simple) the parents to care for him at home with the vent.
I wonder if the parents were given this option?
Use to be decades ago us parents of the post accidents/near drowning/stillborn/revived brain injuries were trained to do just that after the hosp had finished all the medical care issues that required ICU care.
This family was told that their son would be killed, they had to go to court to try to prevent that.