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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

Actually not sure how I feel about that. They simply classified it for the same caps on student loans as the rest of us, rather than the higher one for roles like doctors.

Both caps are bad, for all of us. Our college education rates are already far too low, and now we’re trying to make college more unaffordable?

But I guess I assumed a nurse’s education was similar to a four year degree, although I don’t know. Is it not? The nurse they quoted claimed 15 years of college: surely that can’t be normal. Isn’t that more than doctors get?

[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (11 children)

LVN takes about two years, RN 4, and BSN another year after RN.

Nurses are the ones delivering the majority of your care, while doctors either diagnose you or are surgeons of some sort.

To sum this up, it’s another attack on healthcare. Do you want uneducated nurses taking care of you every needs? Because nurses are all you’ve got, doctors don’t lift a fucking finger doing bedside work.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Again, y’all are are getting too hung up on the label. No one is saying they’re not critical. “Professional” in this case seems to mean “qualifies for more student loans, like Doctors”, instead of “qualifies for student loans like everyone else”. I’m not saying nurses aren’t professional, I’m saying it looks like their education costs more similar to mine than to a doctors.

AND Y’ALL ARE MISSING THE POINT. Everyone getting hung up on whether this insults the people forming the core of our healthcare system are missing the part where they’re limiting student loans for everyone

[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

For one of the local colleges it costs about 100K

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

So new limits on student loans

  • $50k cap for most of us
  • $200k cap for “professionals” like doctors
  • no more parent plus loans

Even public universities are more than that everywhere (a few like Massachusetts has means tested free tuition)

Only the very wealthy will be able to afford private school

Given the loans taken out by doctors I know, that’s not even close

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