In 2020, in the debates of the 2021 budget, the issue of the lack of budget resources to expand the SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde (Single Health System) arose. In this context, the National Health Council proposed this petition , since, with the end of the emergency budget, Constitutional Amendment 95/2016, which froze investments in health and other social areas until 2036, would once again be in force.
According to data presented by the National Health Council in the petition, the loss of resources from the Unified Health System (SUS) exceeds the value that the Ministry of Health had in 2020, exceeding R$35 billion calculated in August 2020, when the public petition it was launched. The budget reduction is against the 1988 Constitution, the CNS resolutions and recommendations, the SUS bottom-up planning process (Complementary Law 141/2012) and Law 8,142/90, which defines community participation in SUS management. It is the weakening of the Constitution's welfare and social protection pact.
Without health there is no economy. The petition has more than 597,000 signatures. PEC 439 of 2018 is in progress which intends to revoke the constitutional amendment in question and four legislative ideas of citizens that together add up to 77,908 support in Congress. That is, the support on the official channel represents 13.04% of those registered in the online petition.
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