Random Thoughts

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Making college "more affordable" lowers the education's worth in the marketplace.

It's simple supply and demand.

No, it doesn’t. If two people both get a medical degree from Cambridge and one of them was better able to afford it, it doesn’t alter the marketability of the degree.

Boru

[onlinebiker]

Making college "more affordable" lowers the education's worth in the marketplace.

It's simple supply and demand.

No, it doesn’t. If two people both get a medical degree from Cambridge and one of them was better able to afford it, it doesn’t alter the marketability of the degree.

Boru

But when it's "affordable" EVERYONE will want a medical degree.....

And when that's the case - those medical degrees will earn minimum wage....

[Belacqua]

No, it doesn’t. If two people both get a medical degree from Cambridge and one of them was better able to afford it, it doesn’t alter the marketability of the degree.

Boru

But when it's "affordable" EVERYONE will want a medical degree.....

And when that's the case - those medical degrees will earn minimum wage....

I see no reason to think that EVERYONE wants to be a doctor, or would if the training were free. Lots of people want to be other things.

And even if everyone did want a medical degree, and it were cheap, that doesn't mean that everyone could get one. Those things are hard.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Yeah because affordable means everyone is capable of handling the strain of medical school. Being a doctor has nothing to do with talent or anything . It's just because you could afford it 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No, it doesn’t. If two people both get a medical degree from Cambridge and one of them was better able to afford it, it doesn’t alter the marketability of the degree.

Boru

But when it's "affordable" EVERYONE will want a medical degree.....

And when that's the case - those medical degrees will earn minimum wage....

Not everyone is qualified to take a medical degree, universities necessarily limit the number   of places available, affordability isn’t the only reason people go into medicine, etc.

This applies to all professions and most trades. If a plumbing college offering free tuition, room and board, textbooks, OTJ training and job placement were to open up across the street from my house, I wouldn’t sign up.

Anyroad, my earlier point was that people will accept or reject an idea based in part in how it’s presented to them. This was evident when the ACA was rolled out and was decried by the right as liberal socialism, even though Romney enacted a similar scheme when he was governor.

Boru

[Sal]

What kind of dressing goes to a Word Salad? I'm inclined to think it must be a dash of Advanced Schizophrenia™.

[onlinebiker]

But when it's "affordable" EVERYONE will want a medical degree.....

And when that's the case - those medical degrees will earn minimum wage....

Not everyone is qualified to take a medical degree, universities necessarily limit the number   of places available, affordability isn’t the only reason people go into medicine, etc.

This applies to all professions and most trades. If a plumbing college offering free tuition, room and board, textbooks, OTJ training and job placement were to open up across the street from my house, I wouldn’t sign up.

Anyroad, my earlier point was that people will accept or reject an idea based in part in how it’s presented to them. This was evident when the ACA was rolled out and was decried by the right as liberal socialism, even though Romney enacted a similar scheme when he was governor.

Boru

True enough...

As I have said before - if T.Rump found the cure for cancer - the lefties would bemoan all the unemployed onocologists....

Same thing if it were Biden - it'd just be the right side pitching a bitch....

[The Valkyrie]

But when it's "affordable" EVERYONE will want a medical degree.....

And when that's the case - those medical degrees will earn minimum wage....

Not everyone is qualified to take a medical degree, universities necessarily limit the number   of places available, affordability isn’t the only reason people go into medicine, etc.

This applies to all professions and most trades. If a plumbing college offering free tuition, room and board, textbooks, OTJ training and job placement were to open up across the street from my house, I wouldn’t sign up.

Anyroad, my earlier point was that people will accept or reject an idea based in part in how it’s presented to them. This was evident when the ACA was rolled out and was decried by the right as liberal socialism, even though Romney enacted a similar scheme when he was governor.

Boru

And not everyone who is qualified for a medical degree has the patience or personality to go through years on med school.

Or to deal with patients.

[Fireball]

Not everyone is qualified to take a medical degree, universities necessarily limit the number   of places available, affordability isn’t the only reason people go into medicine, etc.

This applies to all professions and most trades. If a plumbing college offering free tuition, room and board, textbooks, OTJ training and job placement were to open up across the street from my house, I wouldn’t sign up.

Anyroad, my earlier point was that people will accept or reject an idea based in part in how it’s presented to them. This was evident when the ACA was rolled out and was decried by the right as liberal socialism, even though Romney enacted a similar scheme when he was governor.

Boru

And not everyone who is qualified for a medical degree has the patience or personality to go through years on med school.

Or to deal with patients.

Hell, I didn't like dealing with the smart asses who came into the shop, absolutely certain of the diagnosis of their vehicle's malfunction(s).

[The Valkyrie]

And not everyone who is qualified for a medical degree has the patience or personality to go through years on med school.

Or to deal with patients.

Hell, I didn't like dealing with the smart asses who came into the shop, absolutely certain of the diagnosis of their vehicle's malfunction(s).

"I've looked at WebMD and..."

Yes, it happens.