Financialization, public funding, and the limits to the universality of health

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect on the repercussion of the financialization of the economy for the pretension of establishing a universal health system. From of an ontological approach of historical materialistic bias, the current situation of the financial dynamics is presented and how it is expressed in Work Bank guidelines; revealing the causal mechanism of underfunding of the unified health system, away from full universality; and demonstrates the structural limits of the public fund as an important mediation for implementation of a universal health system.