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Loan plan in Republican bill could worsen doctor shortage, experts warn
(www.theguardian.com)
This is absolutely terrible, and par for the course for this administration. However. Maybe we should rethink forcing people to rely on enormous, financially crippling, unforgivable loans in order to obtain an education? Especially an education that directly benefits society as a whole?
Fun fact:
The extreme shortage of medical specialists is a direct result of the US government cutting 1960’s federal funding that had been established to incentivize education in specialties.
The medical professionals who became specialists because of this funding are now dead or too old to practice, the government has seen this coming for decades, and nobody in congress really gave enough of a fuck to address it.