[konschubert]

That's a false dichotomy.

It's not: Do we get a million teenagers or not?

There is a third option:

Let those teenagers join the workforce, use the revenue from the increased societal productivity to hire more professional workers in the health care system.

[ChuckNorris89]

Sure, but if suddenly cut the students loose from their social duties, you need money now to pay for those who will need to be employed to cover in their places, and you can't wait a few years till those students graduate, get jobs and pay taxes to cover those extra jobs. It's a monetary chicken adnd egg problem.