if you get a masters in medicine, in 2012 it s $135,000. but as you can see, back in 2004, it started at $103,000. there is plenty of evidence that people went into these programs medicine and law, and a whole raft of other students, student study programs knowing at the end of the road their debt would be forgiven. so they ran up a whole lot of debt knowing that the taxpayer was going to subsidize them at the far end. i repeat: 1.3 million people tried to walk awaykp &c@ from $72 billion, $73 billion worth of student debt. i maintain that that is maybe the sound of the student loan debt bubble bursting because it s now $1.1 trillion in student debt. $1.1 trillion, doubled since the year 2007. people can t afford it. they re looking for ways of getting around it and they re giving the taxpayer the bill. as the taxpayer always winds up with the bill. what started out as a