This study discusses the advances and limits of governmental regulation in the health insurance and intends to serve as a "map" of the integrality of the assistance provided by following the continuum care. The user would be monitored according to a established course of therapeutic plan, led by a process of service provision and not by a logic bent on frivolous consumption (of service). This mechanism allows the state to employ regulating parameters and criteria for the control the quality of the care provided.
Health insurance; Governmental regulation; Integrality assistance; Continuum care
