Preventive punishment to deter denial of coverage

Abstract

Processes for defining and redefining the laws for access to health and for healthcare services are generally neither linear nor free of ambiguity. Conflicts of interest or lobbying is observed within society. The legal barriers containing the influence of agents and reasoning contrary to the use of procedures essential to guaranteeing life have been summarized in reports on litigation surrounding emergency services. The second conviction levied against the largest Brazilian private healthcare provider because of its denial of obligatory coverage was the object preventive punishment. The recognition of individual damages and the reversal of most of the penalty incurred on a public hospital was a decision that was seen as an unequivocal social statute.