Although we have reciprocal treatment arrangements with the EU, we only collect about 10% of what we're owed, and to make matters worse, we don't get anything back from the non EU countries. The proposals whereby you have to take ID to the doctor or to A&E will cut down on some of the abuse, but I'm sure there'll be a nice trade in fake ID's for it.
I'm all for charging Saturday night drunks for their treatment, but no, not smokers, although as they're now being told to stop smoking before they can get a lung transplant, that seems to have been covered already.
My daughter was in hospital recently, and the whilst we were there, there was very few OAPs in the A&E department, one of the porters said that it was the elderly from the care homes that were causing most of the problems there, as the GPs didn't give them good care, then after they were shipped into hospital by ambulance, the doctors then discharged them too soon, the care homes didn't check on them properly, and they then ended up back in hospital.