The article analyses the Government Health Policy, in the 1995-1998 period, focusing the main decisions related to the SUS (Single Health System) organization and financing. It points out and discusses some among several federal government decisions: the regulation of the federal resources transference criteria to states and municipalities and the resulting definition of the different kinds of local health system administration; the basic health care reorganization strategy via special incentives to the PACS (Health Community Agents Program) and to the PSF (Family Health Program); the establishment of the CPMF (Temporary Contribution on Financial Transactions) as an specific source of health services; the regulation of private health care plans and insurance.
government policy; health policy; health services
