• BRAZIL Health Insurance Information

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The Brazilian healthcare system is made up of a large, government managed system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), which provide coverage to the majority of its residents, and the private sector, run by private health insurance companies.

 The Brazilian Constitution set up the SUS in 1988 to establish a national health care program, which centers on three fundamental principles of universality, comprehensiveness and equity.

 By universality, it means that the national healthcare is to be made available to all citizens, no matter what gender, social status, income, skin colors or whatever factors.

The government recognizes that the overall health situation of its population can be determined by a host of factors, which include education, physic, income, employment, sanitation services, access to land and health services, quality of health services as well as the social and family conditions. 

Full and comprehensive medical assistance (in the form of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation) should be accessible to all citizens. 

Equity means that health policies would pay attention to the inequalities among the population, benefiting those groups that are in more dire needs of medical attention.

 The expenditure in the public healthcare sector in Brazil is huge compared to its GDP.  The amount is considered high among its emerging-market contemporaries. 

Government is known to have spent close to 9% of GDP in medical care (only social protection area managed to spend more). 

Even the overall healthcare service quality indicators are not out of sync with the averages in OECD countries, the highly decentralized approach adopted by the government prevented its ability to extend the scale and scope of its medical offerings.

Private health coverage is in commonplace in Brazil. 

They can be had as individual coverage or as part of overall employment benefits (most corporations provides private health coverage). 

In fact, private insurance policyholders are able to access public healthcare system as well. 

Report published in 2007 indicated that over 37 million residents are covered by private healthcare.


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