Federal loan changes threaten future middle-class medical students
The author, Gauri Gurumurthy, a third-year medical student, explains that she could attend medical school thanks to the federal Graduate PLUS loan program.
On July 1, new provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill limited the amount graduate students can borrow and eliminated the Graduate PLUS loan, which had covered full tuition and living costs for many.
Because she enrolled before the rule change, she remains eligible, but students applying later may find medical school unaffordable, raising concerns about the pipeline of physicians from middle-class backgrounds.
This writeup was produced by pharmadog from original reporting by STAT.
Original headline: “Opinion: I may be one of the last middle-class medical students who could afford to become a doctor”
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