My point is that if your goal is to reduce healthcare costs, simply doing away with the bachelors degree requirements for MDs will not have a meaningful impact. My husband made it through 4 years of undergrad with zero debt, but we have a wagon load of debt from med school. And the idea that parents will help with tuition is such a privileged idea, especially with costs being what they are today.
IF the goal is to lower healthcare cost we need to fix the system and not blame the doctors, many of whom struggle with crippling debt for years after they finish school. If we’re just talking about streamlining the process for medschool to make things easier for doctors, there are interesting points to be made, but I was referring to the discussion about healthcare. There seems to be 2 separate conversations going on.
