I really think the anti-student-loan argument is a red herring. Medical costs have gone up almost the same amount in the same time period without student loans.

Everyone can agree there are many factors that can drive costs up. What is the relation between medical costs and tuition costs here? It seems to me, in this case, they both share, to different extents, large amounts of guaranteed government funding. So, that could arguably be one of the reasons both of those industries showed some of the highest inflation of any over the last 30 years.