English speaking and comparatively dirt cheap, fear is the good people will be working for US remote companies
I've had to tell recruiters straight up that they can't fill that position and never will in Australia/Canada/New Zealand because anyone who could do it is already doing it in the US for x5 the salary they are offering here.
If only the US had a functioning healthcare system I'd move back there too.
As a percentage relative to healthcare maybe (say $10 generic drugs instead of $2) but if you are getting $100k more a year who cares ?
Australia has a hard cap on how much you can be charged for. I lived in the US when I was a teen under the most gold plated of plated plans and after a protracted hospital stay that was over $2m we still have over $100k that was not covered after the company lawyers spent months fighting with the insurance lawyers. Things have only gotten worse since then.
In Australia the same thing cost $2k out of pocket.