It’s nothing new, private companies love to use governamental resources. It doesn’t matter how they gain access to them. In this case, it’s news about the biggest health insurance provider in Brazil deciding it’s cheaper to outsource procedures to the public sector and then pretend they will pay their debt later. They won’t, but they would profit anyway, because the government works with outdated numbers and charge less for the same procedures provided by the private sector.
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The company finding a way to recover when their stock drop when the government forces them to improve their plans: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/brazils-hapvida-corrects-accounting-balances-renegotiates-debt-2025-03-19/
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News talking about how health insurance providers had 430% increase in profits and the practices that allow that (in Portuguese): https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/hapvida-desenrola-divida-com-o-sus-e-tem-perdao-de-866-milhoes/