Record-setting $1 billion gift will allow Einstein Medical School to go tuition-free - NY Daily News
Record-setting $1 billion gift will allow Einstein Medical School to go tuition-free - NY Daily News
The gift from board chair Ruth Gottesman to Albert Einstein Medical College in the Bronx removes a major financial hurdle to becoming a physician in a historically underserved borough.
Just another example of something that could be universal if we taxed the rich appropriately.
But they'll still charge tens of thousands in other fees.
Tuition was a relatively small part of my total school costs.
25Absolutely they will. The education system, like everything else in this country, is about taking as much away from the customer as you possibly can.
19Yeah not enough people are mad at the universities for inflating prices to soak up those sweet sweet government funds which goes hand in hand with the student debt crisis. And now the universities need those funds and there’s no way to rewind without destroying important institutions.
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Those doctors won't charge any less for their services. This is just another handout to the wealthy.
3Most doctors don't make enough to be in the class of people who are ruining the world
24At this point, doctors being rich is an out of date stereotype from before today's rich guys screwed us, and the doctors, out of the good economy we would've had. This is the fundamental misunderstanding holding the idea back from mainstream audiences, they seem to believe "eat the rich" means literally to destroy anybody who makes as much as a doctor or lawyer makes, forgetting these are simply further examples of often abused workers, same as the person cobbling shoes, welding, cooking, whatever.
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