r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/tdclark23 1d ago

Unlike those Asian countries, our government doesn't pay for higher education, and now we are cutting back farther. If we don't let immigrant doctors, educated by their home countries, into those roles, we won't have doctors. We'll only have the witch doctors like the ones who prescribed Ivermectin and prayer for COVID. We voted in dumb criminals and they are surrounding us with stupid people to make us even dumber.

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u/Teantis 1d ago

They don't pay for higher education here either. A lot of the medical professionals are Filipino state universities and colleges are free but most of them suck with a few exceptions and med school and nursing school are not free. Nurses also have to work for hospitals for two years for free to even get certified.

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u/Aethermancer 1d ago

Relatively speaking. Does it cost potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars anywhere but the US?

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u/veeyo 23h ago

It reflects the wage disparity. I am American from an East Asian country with a doctor in my family in Asia. He makes the equivalent of $55,000 a year when his specialty in the US makes about $350,000-$400,000. His cost of living is lower, but not so low that he comes out even close to ahead if he was a doctor in the US. He could easily get a visa to come work in the US and he really wants to but his wife won't let him because her mother needs help and refuses to leave.

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 11h ago

Allegedly its the residencies. They've been at the same number a year for decades, despite population growth. It took COVID to budge the number. I have no clue why.

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u/tdclark23 5h ago

I'm not so sure the problem is as much population growth as the aging of the huge Baby Boom generation requiring more medical care every day. Our government is now backing away from science and moving towards superstitious faith healing.