Malaysia is quite well known for its affordable and quality healthcare, which ranks highly on worldwide indexes, and it maintains the highest western standards. It is also a simple system. Visiting a GP or specialist can be done in advance or simply show up and wait to be seen. Initial visits cost around USD 20 to USD 50; follow up visits are often less than half that; and a private room for a night in a hospital is around USD 200. There are no months-long queues for treatments, and costs for medicines are frequently around one third of what the US charges for the same drug.