Originally Posted by Stuart C

Actually, the NHS was set up with procedures in place to charge people who for whatever reason (e.g people from other countries) are not entitled to free healthcare. It's just those procedures are not used.

As for banning drinking for under 21s, how do you enforce it? Many adults buy alcohol, and store it at home (for legitimate reasons). How would you stop the kids nicking the alcohol, drinking it and going out and causing trouble?


I agree that we need to be treating the source of the problem (the alcohol abuse) rather than the end result. I think part of the problem is that we have the idea of going out and getting drunk deliberately, rather than going out and drinking socially.