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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They control federal student aid. If they go away- a lot of kids are not going to college [/quote]

This. At some point folks will become aware that the Dept of Ed contains the 5th largest lending bank in the US. Shutting it down, like everything else Trump holds out as an easy and obvious fix to his slavering base (who are an absolute minority of Americans), is not going to be a straightforward project.[/quote]

So in other words, shutting off the taps for unlimited money to fund outrageous college tuition might actually do tremendous amounts of work at tackling the issue, because if students can't get money schools will have to stop increasing prices and will have to actually cut tuition.

Sounds like a big win to me.[/quote]

Now you get it.
It's the same principle as with healthcare. They can charge thousands for an x-ray because that's what Medicare pays out. They can charge hundreds of thousands for a college education because the DOE will lend it.  In sane nations the prices of these things are transparent and much lower.[/quote]
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Medicare and Medicaid prices are negotiated prices and the prices are transparent the government typically pay doctors less than what insurance companies would payout, and those prices are also negotiated for the most part. In fact, before you obtain medical care, you can ask the hospital or doctors the cost of the procedure before and make the decision of should you or should you not obtain the medical treatment. It is as transparent as you want to make it.

As for college education, that’s pretty much transparent as well. When I receive my invoice for DC’s school, I know how much is for tuition, room, board, fees, health,, legal, etc.  bits very much transparent and has very little to do with the federal DOE. In fact, I only use DOE to do the FAFSA. Are you people advocating getting rid of financial aid, so that only the wealthy can attain education?  [/quote]

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