Políticas públicas e o direito ao fornecimento gratuito de medicamentos: desafios ao poder judiciário.

This paper analyses the challenges in the case of the right to health, specially, the free supply of medicine. Thus, it aims to present the complexity involved in achieving public policies in undeveloped countries, like Brazil, in which the fi nancial sources are scant and the deference of some judicial demands should represent the choice between life of one and life of many people. Based in these facts, it is studied the prioritization of collective judicial actions as the better way of accomplish public policies of health, particularly, free supply of medicine. Therefore, in this article it is drawn minimal limits on the intervention of Judicial Power in Executive Power, rethinking public policies and their implications in Democratic State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]