Reply #52: Little sympathy here, student loans should have NEVER

[MicaelS]

Been the province of for-profit institutions. It should have always been a government run, and government funded program. You don't pay it back, they can still garnish your wages or grab your income tax return. And MAYBE if we had public funding of the medical / nursing school education of primary care doctors and nurses in exchange for 5 years service in a government medical corps, we wouldn't have a shortage of primary care people because they all have to specialize in high profit specialties.

To put it another way, sometimes business is THE problem, and government is THE solution.