OS SISTEMAS DE SA??DE NO ??MBITO DA UNI??O EUROPEIA E A PR??TICA DE TURISMO SANIT??RIO: BREVE AN??LISE SOBRE AS REPERCUSS??ES TRAZIDAS PARA O BLOCO

摘要

The aim of this article is to analyze whether European legislation and jurisprudence favor the practice of health tourism. It starts on the elucidation about the current legislative apparatus until finally focusing on questioning if there is actually free movement of patients, what is the social or even economic repercussion for the member states, and how the reimbursement of health spending occurs, which had extensive modifications after Directive 2011/24/EU. Finally, it analyzes the importance of the existence of a cooperation system in health in the European Union, that today, due to differences in the regions of the group, has problems of execution, because some states are more burdened by the guarantee of the right to health than others, which evidences the practice of sanitary tourism. It is an exploratory research, with analysis of national and European legislation and literature.