My daughter has been trying to enter that field. In fact, she landed a job as a medical assistant in a doctor's office without completing a medical assisting course and worked there for nearly a year before the practice was audited by the state and she was terminated because she didn't have her "credentials". She was doing a great job, in fact, the doc liked her so much during the time she was there, he gave her more responsibility and a raise. The patients loved her, and that's what he really cared about.
Bottom line is, she'd spend about $10,000 to land a $12.00/hr. job. How could she pay off a loan that size and support herself? She's currently waitressing, saving up the money.
Big government at work with a big assist by big insurance. I'll bet this kinda stuff happened thousands of times a day all thru out the USA. These days government regulates just about every facet of our working and personal life. We are lucky will can still take a crap (in our government approved tolet) with out a permission slip.
The government workers in the colleges and the regulation enforcement offices need forced clients to pay for their retirements.