In a nutshell, all US citizens end up paying extremely expensive education (compared to countries with same or better education level) to overpriced private fac

In a nutshell, all US citizens end up paying extremely expensive education (compared to countries with same or better education level) to overpriced private faculties and in bank loans instead of simply accepting that higher education should be public (and with that greatly reducing the expenses with education) and founded by state with a network of public faculties. All in all, people appreciate the idea of having a middleman in the equation that greatly increases the costs of the product, just so that then can pretend they are not financing other people education when they could simply accept public education, pay much less and get rid of the speculative middleman. Same goes for healthcare actually. It's a strange part of American mentally: better pay more for an inferior product and pretend that you aren't actually financing those that can't afford the product, than pay less and have a part of what you pay directly helping those that can't afford it by themselves.