Not the Case Doc
Not the Case Doc
Sienna Chitwood
As we roll into the new 2026 year there are major changes that have occurred regarding our educational system. As of July, 1 2026 seven degrees, such as: nursing, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapists, accountants, and educators. Those were once considered professional practices, but are now reduced to being a basic graduate practice. The Department of Education headed by Tom Horn has no longer coincided once very prestigious careers are now no longer ‘professional degrees’ due to the United States President Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill”.
Nursing is not the only profession affected by this new act, such as: Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists, Audiologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language pathologists, and Public Health as well as Educators. With those practices being excluded from what is being considered a ‘professional’ category, will worsen our current shortage of nursing and others in a similar field. The act is designed to make the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 permanent. The 2017 act was a temporary act according to Bankrate.com, a professional financial website, that gives readers understanding financial information of the U.S stated, “it doubled the standard deduction that taxpayers could claim to shield their earnings from taxes. The bill also lowered many individual income tax rates and widened the income thresholds that fell within them.” This new 2026 act would make that 2017 act permanent.
The goal as well as boosting the economy is to put more limits on the amount of money for student loans a person could take out. It also has negative effects on the students aspiring to become one those professions that are now excluded as a result. There is worry that the shortage of these people of profession will only worsen due to the increase of cost of those loans. Dan Chitwood, who has a Physical Therapy degree, voices his opinion on this new act and what changes that it will make to the community. “It may have little impact on the current educated professional, but it directly attacks the future of our healthcare system by suppressing access to adequate student loans for advanced degrees for the unaffluent.” The students who need to take out more loans than others will have substantially more debt than other students who can afford it this will be an underlying factor in a lot of aspiring people in these professions, also there is the fact that those who can afford the student loans normally don’t follow those perfections they will mostly go and stud for higher paying jobs to keep their accustomed lifestyle.