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Some times the only way to get peoples’ attention is to go
after their money…Yes, YOUR money. Just
imagine if all of the Nation’s student loan debt went into default. In 2017 the total US US
Because our Nation has broken its “Social Contract” with unmatched
doctor graduates, they cannot obtain the work necessary to repay millions of
dollars in student loans. They cannot
obtain a license to practice Medicine in the US US
Currently, I am asking a lawyer in my city to consider the
feasibility of a class action lawsuit against the Federal Government on behalf
of the unmatched doctor graduates.
Although I am not a lawyer, here is how my thinking goes.
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Recently, an L.A. Times editorial talked about predatory
loans. It defined “predatory lending” as
loans “with no way to repay their original loans other than to obtain further
ones”. The Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau will require payday and auto title lenders “to do the sort of thing
banks and credit unions already do:
Before extending a loan, they’ll have to determine whether the borrower
can repay it”. The last sentence of the
editorial says, “the issue here isn’t access to credit. It’s protection from predatory lending”.
If a medical graduate cannot repay student debt because of a
government whose right hand does not know what the left hand is doing, I would
accuse the US Government of “predatory lending”!
I think that the lawyer should look also at the state medical boards. These boards should allow the unmatched doctors to practice medicine at least in similar capacity of the PAs. Also, I think that there's something wrong in the policy of the boards. They limit the number of licenses indirectly by requiring residency training only with accreditation from the ACGME when they know that the accredited training doesn't absorb the unmatched doctors who constitute nearly 30% of the registered applicants according to the NRMP 2017. The denial of a license, the requirement of a license, or the procedures required to obtain a license may be challenged in court. It is true that the agency responsible for issuing the license can control the number of licensees. This function is important for activities such as hunting, where the licensing of too many hunters may deplete wildlife populations and put hunters in danger of stray bullets. But I don't think that this reasoning is valid in medicine. On the contrary, more licensees means more choices for the patients especially when they exercise their right to see second opinion. I think that the court may ask the state medical boards to consider different accreditation from the ACGME's so that the qualified doctors can do their training or the boards may choose to negotiate with the ACGME to remove some of the unnecessary regulations.
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