Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/220216 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 127
Publisher: 
Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea), Brasília
Abstract: 
The idea of regulating private health plans so as to favor major players and the "managed care" is incompatible with the guidelines of the National Health System [Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)] and for this reason we defend instead a regulatory action aiming to strengthen the public sphere. In particular, we discuss how this alternative could improve the regulatory capacity of the National Supplementary Health Agency [Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS)] to face the economic crisis in the health plan marketplace, dispelling the mistaken notion that the market, once strengthened, will cooperate with the SUS rather than contaminate it.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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