[CGMthrowaway]

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]

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

[garbawarb]

But Pakistanis don't.

[bastawhiz]

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.

[crazygringo]

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.

[kelnos]

I feel like spending the cost of a crappy cup of coffee to get a clean needle so you don't get HIV is money well spent.

[wildzzz]

Median household income in US is $83k so 0.04/125 * 83k is about $26, much more than cup of coffee. If you're sticking like 15 kids a day with the same needle, that's like $400 a day saved.

[MagnumOpus]

You are comparing monthly individual wages in Pakistan to annual household income in the US. That results in your numbers being nonsense.