IN RESPONSE TO MY HIGHER-EDUCATION BUBBLE POSTS, reader Edwin Leap sends this on the high cost of medical education. “The thing is, American health-care is expensive. But so is medical education. As we embark on this century, what are the odds that physicians with $240,000 loans for medical school will be able to offer inexpensive care? What are the odds they will enter low-paying specialties? They might be interested in charity care at first, but when the first loan payments come due all the good intentions in the world won’t change the fact that lenders want their money back.”