RIGHT TO HEALTH: impacts of reducing bureaucracy in the incorporation and provision of exceptional medicines by SUS.
Right to health. SUS. Exceptional Medicines. Debureaucratization. Efficiency.
In Brazil, especially with regard to the constitutional provision of the right to health, difficulties and obstacles have been observed in the provision of pharmaceutical assistance to the population, especially for people who belong to more vulnerable groups. In this sense, Public Administration, especially in the management of public health policies, needs reformulations and innovations that provide more efficient and effective management in guaranteeing the population's rights. Public policies for the incorporation and supply of exceptional medicines are relevant to Brazil, for this reason, the present work aims, through the evaluation of social, economic data and data on the judicialization of medicines in the Unified Health System (SUS), to analyze conflicts between the Powers over socioeconomic public policies and the adequate supply of high-cost medicines by the SUS, given the right to health and the financial resources available by the State; As well as reducing bureaucracy in the incorporation and supply of exceptional medicines in the SUS. In this aspect, the present study points out some of the constitutional and legislative predictions on the subject of the right to health and public policies on pharmaceutical assistance in the specialized component, and exposes “difficulties” surrounding the constitutional protection of health, the interpretative activity of norms by public management and the Judiciary and the strategies used by Brazil for the country's social and economic development.