A month's wage in Pakistan is about $125. So each syringe would feel like a cup of Dunkin does to many in the USA

bastawhiz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have orders of magnitude more cups of Dunkin each year than I get injections at a doctor

But Pakistanis don't.

	▲	bastawhiz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that if the analogy of a $0.04 syringe is supposed to be as expensive as a cup of coffee, it's still not expensive even if you do it often. Maybe they have too many injections. Either way we have a bunch of kids with a disease that can kill because someone thought something as expensive as a cup of coffee was too expensive.

Which would be entirely reasonable cost as part of a healthcare visit.

When people complain about healthcare costs, they're not complaining about things that cost the same as a cup of coffee locally.