New approaches to tuition may breed new types of doctors. This in turn may create new people-centered communities where doctors can focus on care and not dollars.
One problem with company-based and market-based communities and a governing system predicated on jobs and taxation is that the language inherently discounts the citizen's basic human needs and elevates the citizen's carnal wants and desires. This University of Central Florida approach to cost-free medical school could begin to make strides in restructuring how we serve each other and our communities. The strides could be revolutionary wherein the bottom line is not the focal point, but the common good of all citizens begins to be the focus. UCF has actioned-itemed in a sense... (to paraphrase) "We have asked what we can do for you to help you do for others."
Yes we need jobs. Yes we need private sector businesses taking care of business. But never miss the fact that we are citizens, and we are more responsible to and for each other than we are often cognizant of and "cognitively" active in. The people making decisions at this university are beginning the interweaving of social investments necessary to build a new America infrastructure for all. I applaud the vision. This citizen thanks you.
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