Trump's Bill's Caps On Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage. #464 Part 2
Docs Outside The Box
Dr. Nii Darko
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, guys, welcome back. |
| 0:01.6 | We talked a whole bunch of stuff. |
| 0:04.8 | Talked about a whole bunch of stuff in the last segment. |
| 0:07.5 | Talked about, you know, what we would change in terms of tradition and medicine. |
| 0:12.7 | Talked about knees running. |
| 0:14.0 | Talked about a whole bunch of stuff. |
| 0:15.8 | Ananda Lewis, people don't trust doctors, all kinds of things. |
| 0:19.5 | So right now we're going to get into this big beautiful bill. |
| 0:23.4 | So if you haven't heard the last segment, go ahead and take a listen. |
| 0:27.3 | But me, tell us about the big beautiful bill. |
| 0:31.5 | That's a long introduction to start a new segment. |
| 0:33.9 | But the New York Times... |
| 0:36.4 | You shouldn't have talked about so much stuff. Alfred, if you can put this up, the New York Times... You shouldn't have talked about so much stuff. |
| 0:39.0 | Alfred, if you can put this up, the New York Times put out an article a couple of days ago. |
| 0:43.2 | Trump bills cap on grad school loans could worsen doctor shortage. |
| 0:51.3 | So basically, it's a story by the New York Times. And it talks about what the proposed one big beautiful bill could do to grad students, specifically med students in medical school. And the big issue and how it limits medical education is capping the federal loan amounts for grad students. |
| 1:13.2 | So you can't take out as much as you normally would be able to take out. It eliminates the grad |
| 1:19.4 | plus loans. It increased reliance on private lenders. This is big, right? So now, you know, |
| 1:25.7 | the majority of people would be able to take out probably 75 to 90% of their school education through federal subsidized or unsubsidized loans. Now we're talking about the majority of them are going to have to go to private lenders, which, you know, means that they have higher interest rates. The protections, like if you go bankrupt or if there's a death in your family or you |
| 1:46.0 | have some type of hardship, a lot of those protections that you have in the federal loans, |
| 1:49.7 | those are gone, right, if you go to the private lenders. |
| 1:52.3 | Absolutely. |
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