then why should I (the taxpayer) have to cough up?
It makes no sense to me and I wasn't the one that chose a degree in dance studies, fine art or basket weaving. You did and there's no reason the taxpayers should have to cough up so can it. Can it right now.
On the other hand, they ought to eliminate the college loan plan entirely and watch tuitions drop like a stone and make college affordable again.
It's such a scam. Tuitions rise, people get loans and enslave themselves in debt and the colleges spend the money on stupid stuff. Eliminating the loan program would force colleges to sharpen their pencils and stop throwing money around and return to their purpose which is giving a person a good education.
This is not a bad idea. My only concern would be finding a way to enable people seeking to enter the medical field, to afford what will always be the longest and costliest of higher education, without at the same time enabling the schools to charge more for it, as they do now with the college loan system.
ReplyDeleteOne other thing involving medical schools. If you recall during the invasion of Grenada part of the mission was to rescue the medical students there. They were going there because it was less expensive. If we make it easier for aspiring medicos to go overseas it would force American medical schools to compete. Many of those schools are every bit as good as ours.
DeleteThere are many things that you get right. Claiming that 'many' overseas medical schools are 'just as good' is not one of them. Or it is misleading at best.
DeleteCertainly, some are as good as US medical schools, even the best US programs, but those are not going to be the ones that are inexpensive to attend. There is a reason that the brightest overseas students will come to study here. Pitt, for one, has one of the best programs in the world.
Young people that are bright enough to get into medical school are generally bright enough to figure out a way to pay for it. For one thing, the military is pretty generous as far as paying school loans off. As far as schools go, they will ALWAY charge what they can get away with. Harvard and Yale are just as much of a business as Ford and General Motors.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking about two things at once. On one hand, if all federally backed student loan programs were eliminated, schools would have to charge something that a student could 'work their way through.'
DeleteThe other item is how to make quality medical training accessible to those who deserve it, without creating an incentive structure for those medical schools to game the system.
Because there will always be an assistance program for that type of education. It is truly a national security issue. (And not in the GWB way of defining that)
This goes back decades ago but I know an MD that paid his way through medical school by working for the Public Health Service for a while.
DeleteCreating an un-gameable tuition assistance plan for medical school is going to be a challenge.