Grad students in health care can't access loans - this is a real problem

I actually dug into this Hechinger Report story because it hit close to home. Apparently many graduate programs, especially in health care fields like occupational therapy and nursing, aren't eligible for federal grad student loans, which means students like Mitzie Westgate are stuck trying to figure out how to pay for degrees that lead to helping others. This matters so much because women make up the majority of students in these helping professions, and if loans aren't available, we're essentially pricing out people who can't afford to self-fund their education. It's creating a barrier right when we need more people in these fields, and it's disproportionately affecting women who statistically have less family wealth to draw from. The fact that there's nowhere to turn for financing a degree in occupational therapy or similar programs is genuinely frustrating.