Thirty Years of Media Coverage on High Drug Prices in the United States: A Never-Ending Story or a Time for Change?

Christine Leopold*, James D Chambers, Anita K Wagner

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent years drug prices have increasingly become a topic of debate for patients, providers, payers and policy makers. To place the current drug price debate into historical context, we searched the New York Times and Wall Street Journal from 1985 - 2015 and found that concerns about drug prices have commonly featured in the press over the study period with recently stronger calls for change. Price levels, types of innovations, stakeholder responses, and strategies to address high prices discussed in the media suggest that concerted efforts are required to enable affordable and high-value innovations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14-16
Number of pages3
JournalValue in Health
Volume19
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2016

Keywords

  • Biomedical Research
  • Commerce/statistics & numerical data
  • Drug Industry/economics
  • Humans
  • Newspapers as Topic/statistics & numerical data
  • United States

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