HEALTH UNIVERSAL RIGHT AT RISK: FINANCING HISTORICAL WEAKNESS AND LULA'S GOVERNMENT UNCERTAINTIES

Abstract

This article searches to identify the conflicts which have been existed in SUS financing bases through its two decades of existence, stressing the staying of constraints and uncertainties which retrench its scheme, during the years of Lula`s governments. In the end of these governments, the conflicts are kept opened and they are far from being solved, in the sense that SUS has not managed up, to the moment, acquire safe, clearly defined and stables sources to its financing and has not achieved an appropriated level of health public expenditure, comparable to other countries which have universal health systems. It argues that to face this situation, it had been important that Lula`s governments, before increasing resources, should have raised health to a priority condition amongst government policies, appraising it as an universal social right.