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Progressive Dems like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders seek to gain power and buy votes by addressing symptoms, not root causes of problems.

The problem with college debt is several-fold. Colleges are “selling” educations that are more expensive than they are worth.

If people received jobs that validated the costs of those educations, they’d be able to pay it back with no problem.

Also, students and their parents are not understanding return on investment of education and taking out far too much debt via the product’s worth.

This is made worse by the government being willing to lend with no direct criteria (for example, loaning more for an engineering degree vs. a social work degree).

Forgiving college debt on the tax payer’s dime does not address these problems and shirks personal responsibility, transferring it to other people. If there should be any responsibility transfer, it is to the colleges.

Let the colleges forgive the loans, since they sold ones that didn’t generate an ROI.

Then, get the government out of the lending game, make colleges have skin in the game, increase education and transparency on ROI of education debt and debt in general and allow loans to be tied to relevant factors (GPAs, degrees, etc.).

The same goes for healthcare. We need to address the cost of healthcare, not just try to make it “free”, which we know will ultimately bloat costs and decrease quality.

Here’s a quick quiz. How much do you think it costs for the following procedures on average?

Lasik surgery?
Breast augmentation?
Knee replacement?

Lasik-Less than $2k an eye
Boob job-$3700 (less than $2k a boob)
Knee replacement-$49,500 per knee (around $100k for both knees)

Guess which is covered by health insurance and which aren’t?
Allowing for competition, transparency and having the recipient pay brings costs down

We need to be addressing root causes of problems to find solutions, not throwing money at symptoms.

Someone who is such a "policy wonk" as Warren claims to be should understand that. Grandpa Commie of course doesn't care to understand that- it's not part of his grift.

And this is not just an indictment of Dems. The GOP has dropped the ball and not been able to put a simple healthcare plan forward that could pass Congress in a decade, during which time they have bitched and whined incessantly. It’s an embarrassment for them.

At the end of the day, we don’t need bad solutions; we need free market solutions. Competition and transparency brings prices down and quality up. Interference with those forces drives prices up and quality down.