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Titulo |
Private health plans with limited coverage: the updated privatizing agenda in the context of Brazil´s political and economic crisis. |
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Autoría |
Bahia L, Scheffer M, Poz MD, Travassos C. |
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Fuente |
Cad Saude Publica. 2016 Dec 15;32(12):e00184516. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00184516. Portuguese, English. No abstract available. |
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Resumen |
The proposed expansion of "accessible", "popular" or "cheap" health plans presented by the Health Minister, Ricardo Barros, has the same, social-rights-reducing character expressed in other measures put forward by the current government, such as PEC 241 (http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2088351), the Constitutional Amendment Proposition which, if approved, will reduce per capita health spending 1 and contribute to deepening inequities in health access in Brazil.
In the absence of efforts to identify the problems and determinants of the current national political and economic juncture, the expression "crisis", uncritically extended to the health system, is directly extracted from sectoral business agendas. The expansion of the private plans and insurance market, through the commercialization of contracts with reduced coverage or co-payment schemes which inhibit service use, is presented as the only solution to the crisis. |
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URL |
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27992042 |
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Tipo de documento |
Artículo cientifico |
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Impacto en el sistema sanitario |
Sistemas Sanitarios - General |
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Impacto en la salud |
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