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Health and Student-Loan Bills Clash

Wall Street Journal

March 11, 2010

The package of fixes that Democrats hope to squeeze through Congress as a companion to the larger health-care bill could jeopardize the contentious effort to alter how the government gives out loans to millions of college students. The student-loan plan, a cornerstone of the administration's push to boost aid to needy students, comes freighted with its own accusations of government encroachment into the private sector. Republicans oppose it en masse, and at least 10 Democratic senators are warning they may vote against it.

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