They are cheating the system as well.

It's completely different for the simple reason that college can be a optional cost, but medical debt is often not optional. Plus these are loans already taken out being purchased at a substantial discount.

Thank you for sharing this

What a great idea, maybe we could all pay our mortgages collectively by drawing funds proportionally based on income.

> Tuition is massively overpriced because you’re paying for schools to squander money on fancy new buildings and frivolous athletic programs.

That doesn’t have much to do with it.

Tuition is inflated because of the government’s half-assed involvement - they use their power to make sure that pretty much everyone can get loans for education, and they underwrite those loans, but they don’t use their power to actually invest in education or to implement any sort of price control.

Imagine you have something for sale. You know that everyone wants / needs what you’re offering. You also know that it’s pretty much guaranteed that everyone will be able to finance what you’re offering, and you know that money is guaranteed and that whatever happens after will have no impact on your bottom line. You’ll charge whatever the hell you want.

Don’t get me too excited.

This is the way

to be fair a lot of for profit colleges are now defunct. And there's a sweeping relief package for defense to repayment applicants that's working its way through the court system. college prices are still to high but there has been a lot of action on the student loan front under biden.

CT Health Care Premiums are about to go through the roof!

Some kind of universal healthcare is needed badly.

So people shouldn't get help because YOU would cheat the system? That speaks volumes about you.

For profit aka capitalism.

I have bunch of health issues and it got to the point I had to work less so I could get medicaid. In the last few years things have gotten worse and I'm going for disability but am not eligible for the regular social security part. I will get approximately $800 a month to live off for disability. It may have gone up touch.

Yeah. I’m not sure keeping the poor and sick out by turbo charging already high housing costs is a viable let alone desirable idea.

>I'm all for loan forgiveness actually, as long as the root causes are also being addressed simultaneously.

You read my mind.

A lot of people (myself included) openly advocate for Universal Healthcare.

"Politicians should just not do good things, I guess"

Out of it's mind for relieving medical debt? Please look in a mirror.

That’s not entirely accurate. Connecticut did have a public option healthcare plan called the Charter Oak Health Plan. Every adult in CT could join and your premium was on a sliding scale based on your income. Governor Malloy killed the public option back in 2011 as he knew the CT Access Health insurance exchange couldn’t complete with it.

https://www.ct.gov/GovernorRell/cwp/view.asp?Q=422194

My mother passed away in '18 after a long battle with Breast Cancer and was burdened with tens of thousands in medical debt at the end of it even with decent insurance through Access Health. Sister and I had to forfeit our family home to creditors as a result. This is such a welcome move, though I wish some system to prevent this debt from accruing again was also underway. Happy to see CT leading in this area for once.

> only makes healthcare CEOs more rich

You're missing the part, where this is the entire point of the American medical system.

Well got the idiot part right.

That's cheap as fuck.

Property values will accommodate demand.

So, this will just encourage idiots like me to NOT pay my medical bills.

Let it go into collections, string along the doctor for years with promises of payment and then wait for government to “rescue” me.

God bless Ned’s America!