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0260/2019 - Obstacles to SUS universalization: Tax expenditures, labor union demands and state subsidy for health insurance.
Obstáculos à universalização do SUS: Gastos tributários, demandas sindicais e subsídio estatal de planos privados.

Author:

• Charles Dalcanale Tesser - Tesser, C.D - <charlestesser@ccs.ufsc.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0650-8289

Co-author(s):

• Mauro Serapioni - Serapioni, M. - Coimbra, - <mauroserapioni@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5761-2660


Abstract:

In the light of the comparative analysis of health systems (SS), we discuss three strategic phenomena for the universalization of SUS: a) health tax expenditures; b) State funding of private plans for public servants; c) the trade union demand for private health plans. Among the ideal types of SS, SUS is universal in law, but hybrid in practice: Beveridgean in primary health care (PHC) and mixed in specialized / hospital care; without being universal in reality (public spending is only 43% of total health expenditure). There is a large state subsidy to the private sector, through health tax expenditures (30% of the federal budget in health) and financing of private plans for public servants, which generates incoherence, segmentation of the health system and inequities. Despite the generic support to the SUS, the union movements have been using private health plans in collective contracting (76% of them), reinforcing the private sector. Reducing health tax expenditures - including state funding of server private plans - would significantly increase the SUS budget and facilitate articulation between health workers and trade unionists, bringing the great strength of unions closer to the long struggle for the universality of SUS and APS.

Keywords:

Health Systems; Health Policy; Healthcare Financing; Unified Health System; Health inequalities

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Tesser, C.D, Serapioni, M.. Obstacles to SUS universalization: Tax expenditures, labor union demands and state subsidy for health insurance.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Sep). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/obstacles-to-sus-universalization-tax-expenditures-labor-union-demands-and-state-subsidy-for-health-insurance/17334?id=17334&id=17334



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