Tunney Sean, Thomas Jane, Cox Adam
University of Roehampton, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5PH UK.
University of Brighton, Village Way, Falmer, BN1 9PH UK.
Soc Theory Health. 2022;20(4):325-345. doi: 10.1057/s41285-021-00162-4. Epub 2021 Apr 25.
Healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic is a highly charged political and economic subject. This work considers US media coverage of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), an under-researched area. We assess the framing of the NHS in editorials, opinion and feature articles during the time of the Obama administration to show how media can perform the role of lesson-drawing, a theory adopted from public policy research. The study also applies the notion of journalistic habitus in this context. Using these ideas, we address a hypothesis which holds that US coverage is framed around the flaws of the UK's NHS. The paper considers how intermedia editorial and news values operate, with commentators drawing a range of negative lessons in both the Democrat- and Republican-supporting press. We find that the NHS was often posited as a flawed international variant of the single-payer model, where newspapers employed an ahistoric explanation of failure and decline.
大西洋两岸的医疗保健都是一个极具政治和经济色彩的话题。这项研究关注美国媒体对英国国民医疗服务体系（NHS）的报道，这是一个研究较少的领域。我们评估了奥巴马政府时期社论、评论和专题文章中对NHS的框架构建，以展示媒体如何发挥借鉴经验的作用，这是一种从公共政策研究中借鉴的理论。该研究还在此背景下应用了新闻惯习的概念。运用这些观点，我们探讨了一个假设，即美国的报道是围绕英国NHS的缺陷构建框架的。本文探讨了媒体间的社论和新闻价值观是如何运作的，评论员们在支持民主党和共和党的媒体上都吸取了一系列负面教训。我们发现，NHS常常被视为单一支付者模式的一个有缺陷的国际变体，报纸对其失败和衰落采用了一种脱离历史背景的解释。
