If Qatar did offer outbasing but removed all the extras such as housing, schooling, medical, etc then I imagine they would have a very hard time finding anybody to take the position. Take New York for example. New York without a housing allowance of roughly 3k/usd per month, schooling, and free medical would be quite difficult to live a decent lifestyle. In fact you would be at the low end of middle class with just the basic plus flight pay. You would be making less than many RJ captains all the while flying your as# off doing ULR's for half the going rate. The whole point of flying overseas for North Americans is that when you add the schooling, housing, medical, tax free status, etc it becomes a decent package. Take all that out and you are looking at a sub standard job. If they kept all the T&C's the same yet didn't cover your home taxes then they would probably have quite a few takers IMHO.