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You need to go to poor or non-Western countries. Somewhere like Saudi Arabia, Russia or China I guess?
Any wealthy Western countries have the same general worldview as the U.S. Angela Merkel or Matteo Renzi don't have different worldviews than Barack Obama.
Personally, I think you're very ignorant, but that's fine. You're entitled to your opinions, and should move wherever you feel most comfortable.
Yup. All western countries basically kowtow to the USA now. No exceptions. The pols are probably either bought off or coerced into toeing the Pentagon party line.
But good luck finding a socialist oriented country where doctors are be "highly compensated".
I'm sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. Doctors in most Western countries outside of the US make VERY good incomes. They might not earn as much as over-paid US doctors, and they might not be celebrities or business people first like doctors often are in the US, and citizens in other countries might not worship them as Americans do their doctors, but they're not hurting in any way, shape, or form. There are a couple of doctors in my family in Canada, and they live extremely well.
Canadian doctors make, on average, about 65-70% of what U.S. doctors make in terms of purchasing power parity.
Not terrible, but it would certainly feel like a pay cut compared to the salary that the OP would likely be making in the U.S.
Perhaps. But not all doctors (or other professionals, for that matter) consider money to be the prime motivator in their chosen vocations. My cousin, a VERY successful doctor in Toronto, Ontario, has turned down offers from the US even though he knows he would likely make even more money than he already does.
On the bright side, at least doctors in Canada don't have to constantly battle insurance companies to get paid!
You need to go to poor or non-Western countries. Somewhere like Saudi Arabia, Russia or China I guess?
Any wealthy Western countries have the same general worldview as the U.S. Angela Merkel or Matteo Renzi don't have different worldviews than Barack Obama.
Personally, I think you're very ignorant, but that's fine. You're entitled to your opinions, and should move wherever you feel most comfortable.
Renzi may have similar views as Obama (slightly to the left i think) but he's basically increasingly viewed as a centrist in Italy. Most of his party, The Italian Left, other minor left wing parties and Five Star Movement are to the left of Renzi's economical views. Same goes for Merkel, she's basically another centrist (same views or slightly to the right of Obama), half if not more of the German parliament is at her left.
Aside from that, in Europe the conservative drive isn't as extreme as it is in the USA
French is not easy to learn as you think, and the Nordic languages are easier. English, German, and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish belong to the same language family as English; French is only similar to Spanish and other Latin languages, not English.
Its clear you have never studied french. French is not that hard for english speakers. In fact many english speakers find easier to pick up french language than german.
English might belong to the same family of the nordic languages, german and dutch, however its by far the most latin language of the germanic languages. On the other hand french is closer to italian, spanish, romanian and even portuguese, however its the most germanized out of the romance languages.
The distance between english and french is much smaller than between italian and danish to give an example.
i think if you really wanna help poor countries then being a doctor in one and offering them your services would go further than donating some amount of money each month.
Yup. All western countries basically kowtow to the USA now. No exceptions. The pols are probably either bought off or coerced into toeing the Pentagon party line.
Or maybe they share similar views? Is that so hard to believe?
Then the poster you responded to was correct. According to the chart you linked, countries with socialized medicine pay fairly poorly compared to the US. Swedish general practitioners make only a bit over 1/3 what US doctors do, for example.
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