Yes, doctors incur a lot of debt, but most of that usually comes from med school. In this case, eliminating bachelors degree wouldn’t really lower costs in any meaningful way.
Parents would be more willing and able to pay for at least part of medical school if it were not preceded by four years of college bills. My wife's medical schooling was funded by her parents in a country where you take pre-med courses in the last 2 years of high school and then go to medical school if you are accepted. She knows her medicine as well as American-trained doctors do (she passed the USMLE exams on her first attempts) and could start her residency in the U.S., debt-free.
Instead of shoveling ever greater amounts of money into a needlessly slow and expensive educational system, change the system.
