From almost 2,000 comments about student loans sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and released on its website last June. Americans currently owe more than $1 trillion in outstanding student loans.

I am the president of the New Hampshire Academy of Audiology, voted by my patients as Northeast Hearing Care Professional of the Year. As a doctor who washes dishes at a restaurant in her spare time to make ends meet, it is really hard to tell future audiologists to “stick with it.”

Psychologists save lives. We prevent suicides and homicides. Yet there are no loan-forgiveness programs for us,…