Health Affairs August 12, 2022
“I just cannot think about loans right now,” an emergency physician and colleague reported after we attended a wellness session addressing rising burnout and forecasts for a dwindling health care workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I work in a setting where I am face-to-face with the sickest patients day-to-day, and yet if I somehow contract the disease by providing care, I will not make the money necessary to pay the loans which allowed me to do this in the first place.”
On April 6th, the Biden administration again extended the hold that allowed borrowers to delay their repayment of federal student loans. The latest action pauses interest and payments through August 2022, extending a reprieve originally put in place...