This paper introduces a theoretical reflection about the problem of health financing from the perspective of Hésio Cordeiro, one of the most important sanitarians of the 1980s in Brazil, and how this author was influenced by the work of Claudio Napoleoni. For this purpose, the essay was used as textual unit and content analysis was incorporated as methodology. The content is structured in three parts. The first describes a brief intellectual and political-institutional biography of Cordeiro and Napoleoni, trying to situate both authors in their historical contexts. The second part shows how Cordeiro was inspired by Napoleoni’s work, which influenced the way Cordeiro addressed countercyclical solutions to rethink public health issues during the 1980s. The third points to a brief final consideration on the importance of Cordeiro as an intellectual who proposed progressist solutions for health back in his time.
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