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Subject Student loan companies convince Florida to suspend the licenses of nearly 1,000 doctors and nurses, and then garnish 100% of the wages.

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The problem with most people that get student loans is that they are mutts. From the very beginning the mutts have no plan to repay the loan, get ahead in life, and go cash only in everything they do. Let alone getting loans for only what they need, most of these losers in debt spent a grip of their loans on lifestyle enhancements cause they're idiots. I know a guy, he's a drug dealer, and he sent his wife to a major accredited University medical school. They paid for most of her tuition in cash but got some loans as well. They promptly paid back the loans when she graduated, she's now a doctor and they have no debt. Point is it's all about how you play the game. Loans are tools or they make you a tool.
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OK, for any of 1000 reasons, she might never have graduated medical school, or failed her national boards enough to wash out forever and not get a license at all.

How will she now pay off these loans?  There's no plan for that in the "student loan program".  I'm not saying to forgive them, but expecting her to pay off everything over 10 years with little or no income is unreasonable.

We need to make repayment terms reasonable, and in some cases just write them off - like if she went blind.
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I bet she has a nice financed SUV.  She needs to prioritize.  I paid for my own college myself, with no loans.  Worked, saved, attended, when money got low, worked, saved, attended again.
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You can't do that with medical school.  If you work, you fail.  You get only one chance to get in, and if you take a break, you're out.

It's a 24/7 commitment for the duration, with zero breaks.  BTW, did you read the top post here?  I didn't speculate on what the bitch did - I speculated on what would have happened if she didn't, or couldn't finish medical school.  There's no way to reorganize the payments in a reasonable way after a life crisis.
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I am pretty sure that national boards can be retaken.  It's certainly better to pass on the first try, but you can retake.

But yeah, once in med school, kids never take time out.  They just let the loan balance accumulate.
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LAKELAND, Fla. (WFTS) — Nearly 1,000 health care workers have lost their license to practice in Florida because they can’t repay their student loans – a new crackdown potentially putting hundreds out of work, the I-Team found.

The move to suspend health care licenses comes after federal student loan companies spent years lobbying states to adopt laws to punish those who default on student loans by taking away their professional licenses.

But an ABC Action News review found Florida is the only state enforcing those laws.

Investigative Reporter Adam Walser uncovered the state’s Board of Health suspended more than 900 health care licenses – including professional certifications for registered nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, pharmacists and opticians – in the just the past two years alone.

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