International What country is doing things right?

[Koya]

Anyway Singapore seems to be doing pretty well at the moment.

UAE seems to be fine too. At least domestically.

 

[Prutfis]

Poland economy is also doing very well too apparently.

Poland gets billions from the eu every year and its pretty much the eu that has propped up the Polish economy for decades.

 

[usernamee]

UAE seems to be fine too. At least domestically.

except for the modern day slavery?

 

[Cole train]

Poland gets billions from the eu every year and its pretty much the eu that has propped up the Polish economy for decades.

Sounds like poland is being smart

 

[jimmas99]

Sounds like poland is being smart

Yes, joining the EU was a smart move. The sad thing is that many right-wingers criticize the EU while simultaneously praising Poland as a country that's "'doing it right".

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

There is no human being that's not flawed so expect a lot of flaws in countries. It's inevitable.

 

[curryjunkie]

Ireland? Scotland? Iceland?

If people are saying Poland, I'd probably say Chile as well.

Ireland a fantastic place to live, we just need to go to the edges and row a hundred miles south where it's warmer..

 

[tastaylvr]

Probably Russia and North Korea for maga

Rest of the world sucks apparently lol

 

[tastaylvr]

Australia is pretty good. I have lots of criticisms but compared to everywhere else it's a great place. Utopias don't exist.

Australia’s great as long as you don’t go on social media where they bombard you with 50 videos about one outlier case in the middle of no where

I never see the shit people complain about in day to day life. Life’s great and it’s only getting better besides the housing crisis but hey I got mine so doesn’t affect me lol

 

[Prutfis]

Sounds like poland is being smart

If being a welfare leech for decades is smart. Sure

 

[Cole train]

If being a welfare leech for decades is smart. Sure

Hes not the dumb one who asks for money, dumb one is who pays

Old proverb around here , i get your point though

 

[NoSmilez]

Anyway Singapore seems to be doing pretty well at the moment.

They have issues too.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

New Zealand has plenty of 3rd world. Trust me.

Yeah just go to the far north, south auckland or any number of places in the north island for that matter

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

Cant think of any country i would rather live in than Denmark

Denmark was nice when I visited but too flat for my liking. One of the surprising places I visited was Salzburg, a really nice clean and cool small city. Even the very few homeless people they had were polite. Not sure how living in Austria overall is though

 

[rearnakedchoke]

How many Canadians cross the border to get treated in the US?

I guarentee Americans aren't going north... lol

Crossing the Border for Care​

Frustrated by long waits, some Canadians are heading to the U.S. for medical treatment.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care

Canada for sure needs a two tier system, but that will take some time. Did you have to pay much out of pocket for your hernia? The guy I worked with just had his HMO switched or something and was telling me his out of pocket costs are through the roof now. Just curious if that is a state thing or carrier thing.

 

[Bubzeh]

Australia.

And I wonder why.

 

[joy2day]

"Doing things right" is different in different places. The methods that work well in smaller countries don't always translate to bigger countries or countries that have socioeconomic or cultural differences.

 

[Broke Lester]

No one said UHC is free so put that strawman away, there's wait times in the US, insane prescription drug prices, tens of thousands of people dying every year from lack of coverage, people rationing medicine, medical debt, etc. You're flat wrong. No one said UHC was perfect. Medicare is very popular and it's just UHC for old people. It also costs less and is more effective than a private system. Medicare is the second most popular government program in the US, the first literally has Social in the name. Big issues is a catastrophic understatement.

Never heard of Obamacare, you must be referring to Romneycare, the product of the rightwing think tank The Heritage Foundation. It's okay, a lot of people get that wrong.

I'm not having a prolonged argument about this; the US system is trash and there's a reason why the rest of the world has a UHC system. I can post 1,000x the horror stories of US healthcare that you can of Canadian.

Let us know when assisted suicide is a form of treatment.

 

[Koya]

except for the modern day slavery?

Yeah you're right. I forgot about their human rights violations. Was just thinking about their economy .

 

[irish_thug]

I think the financial advantages and probably the country neutrality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_neutrality?wprov=sfla1 ) are a big plus. People often move just a few kilometers from the border (in France obviously, where the wages are much lower ; working in Switzerland and living in France, if you do things right, your quality of live might be 2-3 times, maybe more.
But I didn’t do thing right lol. I started with something like 2600€ (adjusted to the Swiss equivalent, worth 1.1 €) monthly, without taxes. By curiosity I searched for an equivalent salary in Switzerland, for my current job+experience : I would have earned 85k€ yearly when I started, because quite a lot of the tax money we owe is actually directly paid by our employer, including income tax.
I worked night shifts for the last 3 years in a psychiatric hospital, a huge, public one, which means a few things : we often have very ill patients, one of whom sent three colleague in sick leave, one pal got a full blown knee in the balls, and had his third children the next day... half the doctors are petrified when they see that person (he can get whatever he wants by being threatening, despite that fact very being nonsensical.


Crazy. I could buy two full sets of new teeth with that money. I often think that dental care is way too expensive. Of course, IMO that sounds like a little boring job, then they have to find a place to work, associates who can share the building, and also share the assistants and secretaries, and the products used for dental surgery... but I think they still earn comfortably enough money

Not just boring, disgusting.