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by dnsco 2943 days ago
This article focuses on a man who took out ~600k in loans to become an orthodontist. That interest has since compounded to 1mm. I would imagine he took the loans out because becoming an orthodontist was his highest-paying career option. Had he known that the variable-rate loans would be impossible for him to pay off he probably would not have taken them out. We should not be putting aspiring medical professionals in this position.
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While we are at it let’s stop artificially limiting the number of medical professionals.
So the state will be increasing the budgets for university medical departments, then ? In contradiction to what has been done for decades now ?

So, what I mean to say is that we will be increasing taxes some amount (not much, but let's say 0.5%) to allow for this and other subjects to train more people ?

(medicine is actually one of the most expensive things to train, requiring lots of tools, infrastructure (literally entire hospital complexes), ...)