Severe Allergies, Price Increases, and Supply Shortages

Severe Allergies, Price Increases, and Supply Shortages

Controlling pharmaceutical prescription costs has been an interest in the United States for decades. In 2016, EpiPen experienced a 600% price increase. This exploratory framing study focuses on news coverage of EpiPen’s price increase and related pharmaceutical price increase stories through analyz...

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Main Author: Hayley Markovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Public Interest Communications
Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/jpic/article/view/127704
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spelling doaj-41c5d1753c914ac4a95287925f7f43eb2021-07-14T13:31:31ZengUniversity of Florida, College of Journalism and CommunicationsJournal of Public Interest Communications 2573-43422021-07-015110.32473/jpic.v5.i1.p78Severe Allergies, Price Increases, and Supply ShortagesHayley Markovich0University of Florida Controlling pharmaceutical prescription costs has been an interest in the United States for decades. In 2016, EpiPen experienced a 600% price increase. This exploratory framing study focuses on news coverage of EpiPen’s price increase and related pharmaceutical price increase stories through analyzing three U.S. television news programs’ coverage. Within 30 news segments that discussed EpiPen or medication price increases, analysis revealed four frames: economic, attribution of responsibility, morality and human interest, and conflict and powerlessness. This study provides a larger understanding of how the crisis of medication price increases is understood and implications for practitioners and individuals aiming to make medications more accessible. https://journals.flvc.org/jpic/article/view/127704
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description Controlling pharmaceutical prescription costs has been an interest in the United States for decades. In 2016, EpiPen experienced a 600% price increase. This exploratory framing study focuses on news coverage of EpiPen’s price increase and related pharmaceutical price increase stories through analyzing three U.S. television news programs’ coverage. Within 30 news segments that discussed EpiPen or medication price increases, analysis revealed four frames: economic, attribution of responsibility, morality and human interest, and conflict and powerlessness. This study provides a larger understanding of how the crisis of medication price increases is understood and implications for practitioners and individuals aiming to make medications more accessible.
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