SUS: understand it, love it or leave it

Abstract

The article presented here discuss on the topic of Public Health in Brazil. The study scope was the Health Unified System – SUS. Initially, we did a chapter on its definition and importance of a public health system in the contemporary world. In a second step, we analyzed the dilemma involving the problems generated by a possible privatization of the SUS. Finally, we talked about the fact that health is a right guaranteed by the state. In this last chapter we made a comparison between Brazil and the USA. Thus, we wish to open a space for reflection on the right to life, legally guaranteed in Article 5, introduction of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 that “assures all Brazilian people and foreigners resident in Brazil, the right to life”(BRASIL, 1988, p.3).