[oldprogrammer2]

Determining need in the context of disability isn't the same argument, though. That's a cost specific to the individual.

I'm all for public/state schools providing even more assistance to those in need, but I couldn't be more opposed to private institutions being free to charge $500k/year or $1mil/year, and then we as taxpayers just pay it because someone decided they liked the dorm rooms better. That doesn't make sense at all.

[klodolph]

Well, one of the reasons why institutions are free to charge so much in the first place is because student loans are so hard to get discharged. Normal loans get discharged in bankruptcy. Student loans don’t.