Inequalities in the Health System Made More Blatant after COVID-19

Abstract

This paper presents some of the inequalities on the health system using data mostly from Brazil to relate them to the COVID-19 pandemic to advocate that now more than ever the world needs to put in place a more collaborative and egalitarian way of financing the health research and the investments in the public health system. The role of the State and institutions in the design of public policies for the realization of social rights is debated in the face of the economic and political crisis in the context of the pandemic based on Martha Fineman's theory of vulnerability, concluding that the networks of vulnerabilities constitute the meaning of State action to protect health in the peripheral context, without giving up the responsibility of creating the means to overcome them.