Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding

This paper has the aim to revisit the theme of the brazilian public health system from the perspective of its operation and funding of its actions and services, analyzing some of the main obstacles to its effectiveness. Endowed with its own logic of organization, planning and funding of its actions and services, the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) finds barriers to its sustainability when it comes to funding and the judicialization of health. Historical under-funding worsened by the economic and political crisis the country currently faces plus the increase in casuistic judicial decisions that prioritize the individual logic over the collective right have produced serious shocks in the system. These are just some of the challenges to an effective public health system. This is why the work of public bodies must be responsible and always take into consideration the collective dimension of the right to health under penalty of causing the collapse of the public health system altogether.El artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la cuestión del sistema público de salud brasileño, desde el punto de vista del funcionamiento y la financiación de sus actividades y servicios, el análisis de algunos de los principales obstáculos para su plena efectividad. Equipado con su propia lógica de organización, planificación y financiación de sus actividades y servicios, el sistema de salud es, en la financiación y la creciente judicialización de los obstáculos para la salud de la sostenibilidad. La falta de financiación histórica agravada por la reciente reforma constitucional que reduce la contribución de los fondos públicos, las perspectivas de la crisis económica y política que atraviesa el país, y el aumento de juicios casuísticas que el prestigio de la lógica individual en detrimento de los derechos colectivos han producido conmociones cerebrales graves a las sistema público universal, son sólo algunos de los desafíos a la eficacia del sistema de salud pública. Por lo tanto, el papel del gobierno debe ser responsable, y siempre con vistas a la dimensión colectiva del derecho a la salud, en su defecto para dirigir el sistema de salud pública a colapsar.This paper has the aim to revisit the theme of the brazilian public health system from the perspective of its operation and funding of its actions and services, analyzing some of the main obstacles to its effectiveness. Endowed with its own logic of organization, planning and funding of its actions and services, the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) finds barriers to its sustainability when it comes to funding and the judicialization of health. Historical under-funding worsened by the economic and political crisis the country currently faces plus the increase in casuistic judicial decisions that prioritize the individual logic over the collective right have produced serious shocks in the system. These are just some of the challenges to an effective public health system. This is why the work of public bodies must be responsible and always take into consideration the collective dimension of the right to health under penalty of causing the collapse of the public health system altogethe