Trump Singlehandedly Responsible for Looming Healthcare Crisis

I mean, that’s what the Internet will tell you, so you should probably believe it.

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In a country where student debt is practically a rite of passage, it should shock no one that the latest policy tweak has people acting like Sallie Mae personally slashed their tires in the campus parking garage.

Welcome to today’s freakout fodder: federal borrowing caps for medical, nursing, and public-health graduate programs. Basically, Congressional Republicans just chopped post-grad loan limits by nearly half, and the outrage brigade is predicting a complete collapse of the medical-educational system. TikTok is filled with future nurse practitioners sobbing into their Stanley cups. X is reacting like the Four Horsemen just rode into Johns Hopkins and canceled badge-access to the free cappuccino machine. Mainstream media have nearly run out of ways to say Here’s How Trump Is Ruining Your Life This Week.