Loan forgiveness could attract health professionals to rural areas

Rural Minnesota is short of medical professionals, and many health advocates are lining up behind a proposal to partially forgive student loans of graduates who practice in rural areas. "This can bring needed resources to our rural and frontier communities," Shauna Reitmeier of Northwestern Mental Health Center in Crookston told a Senate committee Wednesday before members unanimously approved a loan forgiveness bill.

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