Whether it be medicine, nursing, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, OTs, paramedics etc, these university/college degrees should be free. People wanting to work in healthcare are devoting their life to helping other people and spending hours of their lives training for these professions. They’re expected to work crazy hours in university training, studying and most working jobs on the side to PAY for their degree as university is a massive expense in itself.
The healthcare system all over the world is crying out for healthcare professionals so why can’t we make it somewhat easier to help people train and somewhat reduce this pressure (I know it’s not as simple as getting more people working but it will help in some way)
I’m in university myself and while I’m not doing a healthcare degree, I highly respect each and every student doing one because it’s not easy let alone having to worry about how their going to fund their degree along with their rent, bills, car/transport etc.
I know some places offer free healthcare degrees like in the North of Ireland but I think it should be standard across the whole world.
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We honestly make more than enough.
Give people who actually need it the money and education
heres my insane idea: upon completion of your degree, your student loans are forgiven and all payments you did make is refunded to you.
If you are a good student it’s often free for most European countries no matter if it’s healthcare or not. Countries invest in their assets (people) but only if they reach certain requirements. I didn’t pay for most of my subjects just for the ones I failed.
Practically, it would need to be tied to a guaranteed period of working for whatever country’s health service paid for the training. You’d need that guarantee before anyone would agree to the enormous cost etc. people never go for these kind of deals…
People get in to Healthcare to get paid. No way 6 in 10 females suddenly all became altruistic and became nurses.
If you want to get more people working in healthcare, there are much easier ways to do it.
Stop the AMA from artificially restricting the supply of new doctors by limiting residency slots. Huge increase in doctors in just a few years.
Allow qualified foreign doctors to practice in the US without redoing residency. Right now the system says we don’t trust a fully licensed doctor from any foreign country, now matter how rigorous its standards, unless she jumps through the hoops of repeating a residency here (of which there are artificially limited slots, see point 1). Just… don’t do that. Trust that a licensed French doctor meets American standards. Many foreign doctors would jump at the opportunity to work in the US instead because it pays so much more.
These two barriers exist to prop up doctor salaries by making the number of them smaller than it has to be for any practical reason. We the public pay the price in the form of higher cost and less availability. Just end doctor protectionism.
‘North of Ireland’ charge for medical degrees and they are funded through SFNI
Imagine that in my country all degrees are free!
It is indeed not a crazy unpopular opinion since it is like that in a lot of countries for nursing school u even get paid .
So classic American take once again