They probably want their education covered as a trade-off.
BINGO!!
Little Known Fact...
Almost all USA STEM PHDs and MDs are heavily subsidized, and that includes almost all foreign STEM PHD students, too.
As far as I know, all MD Interns and Residents are fully funded by government.
They can already to that. This is about the new generation of doctors coming up that believe the BS and think the govt can do it all, like they do in Europe, Cuba and Venezuela. What they don’t realize is, everyone’s income is taxes at astronomical rates and whatever pay you do get is more like a stipend. Let them get their entry level jobs and then tax them at the appropriate tax rates, so they can see what it’s like. I bet they won’t be too fond of their single-payer after a little while.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!! If they can go to college for 12 years, but have all of those bills written off, the minute they become a licensed Doctor, they don’t NEED to make $350K a year to pay back college loans! AND, many hospitals give very GENEROUS packages to their in-house doctors, including houses and vehicles, etc...
This doctor and her husband hate single payer. It will kill all the innovation and finish ruining the best health care system in the world. Medicare’s rules have made patient care much more cumbersome and difficult and their documentation requirements ensure that as a physician I spend more time in front of a computer than with my patients.
As for the cost of education my daughter will graduate from med school next spring with 250,000 in loans. That’s after we paid every penny of her undergrad and all her living expenses in med school. A lot of her classmates owe double that.