Precificando a dignidade humana no tribunal: os planos de saúde e as indenizações por danos morais

• Autor(a) principal: Bähre, Erik
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antropolítica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/antropolitica/article/view/49676
• topic: Planos de saúde; SUS; Etnografia; Dignidade; Assistência médica; Danos morais; moral economy; health insurance; SUS; ethnography; dignity; healthcare; moral damage; inequalities

Clients sue health insurance companies for refusing to authorize a treatment or for fraud. They successfully claim that companies violate their human dignity and therefore must pay for causing moral damages (danos morais). Moral damage claims are not made against the state, which is responsible for the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). This means that the courts establish that suffering and human dignity mean one thing when related to a company, and another thing when related to the state. I argue that financial compensation for suffering and violations of dignity are part of a regime of value. This regime shapes the commensurability of dignity and money and is anchored in personal narratives as well as legal procedures and prevailing ideologies regarding state and market. Thus, patients, who are also consumers, are empowered with a human dignity that has both moral and monetary value