If it's their choice not to hold a JAA Medical, then the consequences will also be theirs.
Yeahbut there's "choice" and "choice".
When an annual medical cost around an hour's flying that was one thing. But now the CAA are insisting on extra tests and a medical costs me £1,000 per year that's an altogether different sort of "choice", particularly when other people also have a say in the family budget.