CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 95 – ANALYSING ITS IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE CONTEXT OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Authors

  • Clóvis Eduardo Malinverni da Silveira Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)
  • Vagner Gomes Machado Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)

Keywords:

Public budget, health system, Law of environmental commons, Constitutional Amendment 95, coronavirus pandemic

Abstract

This research addresses the impacts of Constitutional Amendment 95 on the social order of the Brazilian Constitution, specially concerning public health expenses, in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The aim was to study the political and legal phenomenon of the Amendment and its consequences to the public budget in such historical period, in which Brazilian society demands, more than ever, an efficient heath system. This study was carried out by the lens of the theoretical discussions about the commons, by which public budget may be understood, ideally, as a resource belonging to society. The method consists primarily of a bibliographical research on Constitutional Amendment 95, followed by a documentary research, analyzing an array of government technical reports. We intended to interpret and analyze official data about the federal public budget in Brazil, from the past years and years to come, to answer the question about the consequences of the amendment on public health. We have focused on the “thematic analysisâ€, proposed by Minayo, by which the following steps are performed: pre-analysis (floating reading, constitution of the corpus, hypothesis formulation); material exploration (coding, classification, aggregation of data). Methodological orientation is hypothetico-deductive. The results suggest that the Brazilian public budget is controlled by financial interests commonly opposed to the interests of the public, in such a way that public power sometimes acts as a guarantor of private interests. Although there are several ways to allocate resources to face the coronavirus pandemic, the constitutional amendment certainly limits the capability of national government to provide public health. 

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Author Biographies

Clóvis Eduardo Malinverni da Silveira, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)

Doutor em Direito (2011) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), área de concentração Direito, Estado e Sociedade, com estágio Doutorado-Sandwitch/CAPES, na Universidade Lusiada (Porto/Portugal). Fez pós-doutorado na Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University/NY (2019). Mestre em Direito (2005) pela UFSC, área de concentração Teoria e Filosofia do Direito. Bacharel em Direito (2002), pela UFSC. Professor Adjunto na Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS). Coordena o Grupo de Pesquisa Direito Ambiental Crítico. E-mail: cemsilveira@ucs.br

Vagner Gomes Machado, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)

Doutorando em Direito pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS (Bolsa CAPES). Mestre em Direito pela UCS (bolsa CAPES). Bacharel em Direito pela UCS (Mobilidade Acadêmica Internacional pela Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal). Membro do Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas em Políticas Públicas e Sociais da Universidade de Caxias do Sul (NEPPPS-UCS). Membro do Grupos de Pesquisa Meio Ambiente, Estado e Jurisdição - ALFAJUS (esforço de cooperação com a Pace Law School - Nova York / EUA e Università Degli Studi di Padova / Itália). Membro do Grupos de Pesquisa Direito Ambiental Crítico: Teoria do Direito, Teoria Social e Meio Ambiente. E-mail: vgmachado1@gmail.com

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Published

2021-01-07

How to Cite

Malinverni da Silveira, C. E., & Gomes Machado, V. (2021). CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 95 – ANALYSING ITS IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE CONTEXT OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. Revista Jurídica (FURB), 24(55 (2020), e9086. Retrieved from https://ojsrevista.furb.br/ojs/index.php/juridica/article/view/9086

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