Should states agree to expand the provision of Medicaid, given that it is the hospitals that will pay the price for the money losing proposition of increased access to health coverage for those who cannot otherwise afford it? This question has major implications for the financial sustainability of healthcare and...

Rising costs in healthcare are a product of both greedy pharmaceutical corporations and poor consumer behavior from everyday citizens. During the economic collapse and dawn of financial recession in 2008, costs for healthcare reportedly rose almost 7 percent (approximately double the inflation rate). However, as the years continued and the...

Despite the fact that opioid has been used by most people to address pain disorders amongst the patients, cannabis should be legalized and consequently used to treat pain disorders in people. Cannabis is one of the most globally investigated therapeutic substances, and to date there are over 20,000 well researched...

Medication use among specific cultural groups is often diverse due to personal and cultural beliefs and expectations regarding healthcare practices and associated behaviors which are influenced by cultural norms, values, and expectations. For example, African Americans are often prescribed medications for a variety of health conditions, and their beliefs regarding...

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also informally known as Obamacare, has bring the U.S. closer to the idea of universal healthcare system that has existed in many other developed countries including Canada, U.K. and Australia. But the implementation of ACA has not been without controversy as judged...