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Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Brazil’s health system: in need of life support?
Brazil’s national public health service, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), is celebrating its 30th year of existence in 2018. As the largest free and universal health care system on the planet, the SUS has greatly increased Brazilians’ access to treatment since it was formed in 1988. It is also the largest publicly-funded system for organ transplants, with over 90% of these kind of surgeries funded by the SUS. Today, approximately 150m people rely exclusively on its services, or 75% of the country’s population, according to figures from the national regulatory agency for private health insurance (ANS). However, while remaining a crucial tool for providing care to the world’s fifth-most populous country, the SUS is often lambasted by the public, with claims that it is inefficient, ineffective, and underfunded.
- Introduction
- Brazil’s health system: in need of life support?
- Marielle Franco assassination shakes Brazil’s troubled democracy
- Conditions improve for entrepreneurs, but resilience remains a must
- Uruguay flirts with entrepreneurship
- Piñera’s immigration crackdown targets Haitians and Venezuelans
- Economic Highlights