Analysis of Judicial Health Claims in the Municipality of CATALÃO/GO (2020-2022)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the judicialization of health in the Municipality of Catalão/GO in the 2020/2022 biennium. An original study was carried out, by a previously trained researcher and in double conference, with a qualitative approach, using bibliographic and documentary analysis from files in the public domain, available electronically on the websites of public agencies. Fifty-six processes were selected. It was found that the predominant actions refer to individual writs of mandamus filed by the Public Ministry, to requests from women aged between 38 and 57 years, with non-standardized medicines in the National List of Essential Medicines (RENAME) being the most requested object. The realization of rights generates social and financial costs. The taxes created to promote public policies are insufficient for the realization of rights, especially health, which collapsed during the pandemic triggered by Covid-19. Thus, the principle of reserve of the possible, imported from European law and modified when inserted in Brazilian doctrine, must be used with balance and guaranteeing minimum conditions of survival and human dignity, under penalty of offending the Federal Constitution.