SB2514 allows certain dental and dental-hygiene students to apply for the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program before obtaining active employment.
The Senate passed SB2514 on June 16, 2025, by a vote of 34 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because neither healthcare nor education is the role of government. The Dental Student Loan Repayment Program is part of the unconstitutional Florida Medicaid Program. Medicaid is a jointly financed federal-state “entitlement” scheme that is not authorized according to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It relies on discriminatory forms of taxation that provide “medical assistance benefits” to “eligible persons,” who have little or no tax liability, at the expense of others—causing more debt, dependency, and poverty. Likewise, student loan repayment for professional, graduate-level education is the responsibility of the students (or borrowers) themselves, not anyone else.
