Law and Economics in the Health Care System: an Analysis of Its Costs and Efficiency
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: The following article, elaborated according to the inductive approach, seeks to evaluate the health care system in the optics of Law and Economics, emphasizing the Brazilian and American models. Public health in Brazil comprises the citizen’s right to be provided with adequate health treatments and the State’s duty of assuring its effectiveness as a universal and free right. In the American model, health is not ensured as an express fundamental right, and there is not a uniform system to promote services to all the population. Therefore, while in Brazil the State’s obligation to safeguard its free fruition to all individuals difficults its fulfilment, in United States, a decentralized and complex system, with particular reference to private insurance, impedes the offer of adequate services to those who need attendance.Considering economic concepts, the efficiency of both systems is stilllow, in a way that their costs overcome their efficiency.
Author: Ana Luísa Sevegnani
Language: Portuguese
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3188262208