The solution to SUS is not a Brazilcare
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v10i3.1191Keywords:
public policies for health care, Unified Health System, private health insurance, public-private mix, Obamacare, inexpensive health insurances, austerity measures, social expenditures, public investment.Abstract
The Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System) in operation has not received all the investments needed to achieve the expected magnitude since its conception and established by Federal Constitution of 1988. In the same period, the health private sector in Brazil has received more and more investments through governmental public policies. The economic crisis and the problems faced by SUS today are used by some actors to justify a pretense necessity of reducing not only the pressure to finance but also the demand for public services, and to present as a solution to such problems a reduction of SUS concomitant with the expansion of people benefiting from private health insurance like those created with reform of the North American health care system known as Obamacare. This article shows the fallacy of reasoning in question through scientific evidences and arguments demonstrating that a greater investment in SUS is fundamental to economic and social development of Brazil.
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