Abstract
The article aims to analyze the judicialization of healthcare in Brazil and its effects, especially two brought institutional innovations: the technical advice centers of judges (Núcleos de Assistência Técnica - NAT), focused on disputes involving the right to health; and extrajudicial chambers of conflict resolution. Such institutes are to: i) minimizing the budgetary effects of judicialization and/or ii) decreasing litigation involving the public healthcare system. From this, it follows that: such institutional changes in the Executive and the Judiciary bring necessary changes; on the other hand, the persistence has made the logic of judicialization is incorporated into the new institutional setting.
Keywords:
Judicialization of healthcare; Brazil; Center for Technical Support in Healthcare Lawsuits; extrajudicial chambers; institucional changes