The public regulation of health in Brazil : the case of supplemental healt / A regulação publica da saude no Brasil : o caso da saude complementar

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This work analyses the process of building the public regulation of the supplemental health care system. It assumes regulation as the capacity of the state to intervene in the offer of services, orienting its development or changing its pattems. The issuance of the 1998 Federal Law n° 9.656, regulating supplemental health care in Brazil is taken as a landmark. It debates the pre and post-Bill tensions, characterizing the positions ofthe actors involved. It also analyses the pieces of regulation issued by the Brazilian National Agency for Supplemental Health (ANS) classifying them according to different aspects of regulatory process: economic aspect; assistance; structure and operation of the sectof. 11 describes the main changes provoked by regulation and discusses the existing gaps in the regulatory process of supplemental health. The main changes pointed out were: a) the mobility in the net of services of health, aiming at its reduction and rationalization and seeking cost reduction; b) reduction in the number of companies due to decrease of active health company and increase in the number of health company cancelled. Prior to the regulatory process, there was a constant entrance in the system of operators without sustainability; c) in the last tive years, the number of beneticiaries has remained quite stable in the medical-hospital plans, expanding just 3.7%, while for the dental services it has grown remarkably (109.3%). Among the medical-hospital plans the medical cooperatives grew 31 %, the philanthropic sector grew 6.7% and medical companies grew 6.4%. Reduction was veritied among the insurance companies specialized in health, which have lost around 1.5 million beneticiaries (-25.1%), and among self management organizations (-7.4%); d) the basis ofthe pyramid ofbeneticiaries is clearly narrower comparing to the basis ofthe pyramid of the general population, while the top is larger. The supplemental health sector concentrates more elderly people and less young people comparing to the whole society. There has been changes in the range of age distribution for users of health plans: the group younger than 19 has reduced; there has been an increase in the number of young workers (from 20 to 29) and in the number of those above 40; e) there has been a decrease in the number of beneticiaries linked to operators with less than 10 thousand clients. The other operators increase their number and percentage of users. Those which work with above 200 thousand users increased their rei ative participation; f) the number of new plans submitted to specitic legislation and ANS control has grown. In the year 2000 they represented 37%, reaching 50% in 2003 and around 60% in 2005; g) the process of collective contracting of health plans has increased; h) the main change in the framework of regulation of assistance was the inclusion of mandatory assistance to ali illnesses listed in cm 10 and the edition of a minimum list of procedures. The assistance offered by the operators covers all the list defined. The gaps of regulatory process identified were: concorrencial and transparency aspects of the sector operation; public and private relationship and the self sufficiency of the sector; the health assistance model; the existence of plans prior to the regulation bill; the insufficiency of the information systems available; and the public institutions not reached by the regulation

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sistema de saude health insurance seguro-saude govermment regulation regulamentação governamental health system

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