Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- Every so often someone reaches out to ask me questions about public healthcare, questions that I do my best to answer.

A woman said her relative was facing charges of RM22,000 per immunotherapy session and would need 36 sessions for their lung cancer.

I thought my RM10,500 for two cycles (where I opted to take only four cycles) was frightening enough.

Another friend with cancer has been prescribed medication that would cost RM7,000 per month as maintenance post-cancer treatment and was told her risk profile was higher due to multiple factors.

I am lucky in a sense that my medication is not as prohibitively expensive as it would have been just a decade ago.

Yet newer, more effective treatments come with large ...