--- title: Five Best: Loan Forgiveness Can Fix Rural Doctor Shortage description: Public service loan forgiveness can fix rural America’s doctor shortage, why do we seem to be alone in the universe and more. canonical: https://time.com/4899290/public-service-loan-forgiveness-can-fix-rural-americas-doctor-shortage/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-14T16:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:34.968Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Loan Forgiveness Can Fix Rural Doctor Shortage og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4899290/public-service-loan-forgiveness-can-fix-rural-americas-doctor-shortage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Loan Forgiveness Can Fix Rural Doctor Shortage twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Public Service Loan Forgiveness Can Fix Rural America’s Doctor Shortage by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 14, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 14, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Public service loan forgiveness can fix rural America’s doctor shortage.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/11/loan-forgiveness-primary-care-physician-shortage/) By Marschall S. Runge in _STAT News_ **2\.** [**Why do we seem to be alone in the universe?**](http://news.uark.edu/articles/39255/the-implications-of-cosmic-silence) By Bob Whitby at the _University of Arkansas_ **3\.** [**Make peace with your negative emotions. It helps.**](http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/10/emotionalacceptance/) By Yasmin Anwar at _UC Berkeley_ **4\.** [**Black people aren’t keeping white Americans out of college. Rich people are.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/black-people-arent-keeping-white-americans-out-of-college-rich-people-are/2017/08/04/e478952e-794a-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304%5Fstory.html) By Christine Emba in the _Washington Post_ **5\.** [**What comes after ‘wearables?’ Try ‘invisibles.’**](https://www.fastcodesign.com/90136166/what-comes-after-wearables-try-invisibles) By Katharine Schwab in _Co.Design_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4899290/public-service-loan-forgiveness-can-fix-rural-americas-doctor-shortage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4899290/public-service-loan-forgiveness-can-fix-rural-americas-doctor-shortage/"},"headline":"Public Service Loan Forgiveness Can Fix Rural America’s Doctor Shortage","datePublished":"2017-08-14T16:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:34.968Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4899290/public-service-loan-forgiveness-can-fix-rural-americas-doctor-shortage/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","emotions","Wearables","doctors","universe"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4899290/public-service-loan-forgiveness-can-fix-rural-americas-doctor-shortage/","name":"Public Service Loan Forgiveness Can Fix Rural America’s Doctor Shortage"}}]}] ```