The Hill News

The House proposal to subsidize student loans by eliminating the Prevention and Public Health Fund, scheduled for a vote Friday, is just a continuation of political maneuvers designed to prioritize politics at the cost of health. America cannot afford to sacrifice the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Affordable Care Act opponents have tried to pit much-needed infrastructure fixes and popular programs against the Prevention Fund as a means of undermining the ACA more broadly, from Medicare payments for doctors to tax relief for small businesses. Now they’re using student loan subsidies to attack the Fund.

Young people desperately need  reasonable loan rates to make sure they can afford college. Congress knows that we all benefit when more young people go to college. We can’t have engineers unless we’ve invested in the infrastructure that allows students to take math and science classes. We won’t have doctors when we need them in the future if we canâ! €™t help them afford medical school now. Education is an investment that pays offâ€"and that’s why we must create and resource the infrastructure today.

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