Student Loan Repayment Reform
In recent years, the average US student loan debt and delinquency rate have significantly increased. This is mainly due to students’ post-school salaries being too low to sustain their loan payments. Those who go into fields that require postgraduate education and training face even greater financial burdens. For example, today’s OMSs enter the workforce with upwards of $300,000 in student debt to repay. The duty to repay these debts serves as a main deterrent to young OMSs interested in pursuing a career in academics or research, leaving the specialty at risk of too few faculty to train future OMSs and a lack of researchers to develop new treatments. It also alters the locality where young OMSs are willing to practice, leaving rural areas at greater risk of being underserved.
AAOMS supports legislation to help address the debt repayment burdens faced by today’s students.
- Comment Letters
- Date
Organized Dentistry Coalition letter in support of HR 7814, the Dental Loan Repayment Assistance Act of 2024
- April 02, 2024
ODC letter to Senate HELP Committee re: workforce shortages
- March 20, 2023
AAOMS letter to Senate HELP Committee on workforce shortages
- March 17, 2023
AAOMS thank you to REDI Act bill sponsors
- March 09, 2023
ODC letter re student loan repayment reform
- July 19, 2022
Physician dentist coalition letter to Senate REDI Act sponsors
- February 25, 2022
AAOMS thank you letter to Senate REDI Act sponsors
- February 18, 2022
ODC letter re POST GRAD Act
- September 28, 2021
ODC Letter to Senate Finance Committee re S 449.pdf
- July 30, 2021
ODC POST Grad Act Letter
- October 15, 2019
Letter of Support to Rep. Ruiz for HR 2574 - Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act
- September 26, 2017
ODC Letter of Support to Reps. Garamendi and Fitzpatrick for Introducing the Student Loan Refinancing and Recalculation Act (HR 4001)
- September 05, 2017
ODC Letter of Support to House Education and Workforce Committee - Request to Report Favorably of H.R. 1614
- April 26, 2017
ODC Comment Letter to Senate HELP Committee - Proposals to Reauthorize and Amend the Higher Education Act of 1965
- April 26, 2017
ODC Comment Letter to House Education and Workforce Committee - Proposals to Reauthorize and Amend the Higher Education Act of 1965
- April 26, 2017