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    11 days ago

    Not from a US perspective:

    • Was able to complete medical school with no money for tuition
    • Medical bill was small enough to be paid in full with one week of new grad salary
    • Was able to defer payment for more than 20 years
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        10 days ago

        I wasn’t trying to argue that the premise wasn’t dystopian. The point is that the US is currently in many ways even worse. Although I think the parents would be on the hook for the debt in the US, not the child.