A função social do Estado em prol da mercantilização da saúde no Brasil : elementos para compreender a lógica privatista e alguns mecanismos de defesa do SUS

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the social function of the State in the public / private relationship existing in Health Policy through Marxist literatures and in the publications of the National Front Against Privatization of Health. In this perspective, we analyze the aspects that compose the Brazilian State in the trajectory of its socio-historical formation, identifying its role in the processes of reforms and counter-reforms, through the insertion of neoliberalism in Brazil. In addition, we approach the interrelation between the public and private sectors in Health Policy through the role of the Health Reform Movement and the creation of the Unified Health System that is subordinated to the imperatives of capital. And, finally, we punctuated some mechanisms of defense of the Unified Health System through the organized civil society movements, which compose the National Front Against Privatization of Health, against the privatization process and its scrapping. It is an exploratory, bibliographical research with emphasis on qualitative analysis that has as its method the Marxian social theory. Through Marxist-based reads, we can understand how the market logic has entered the public health sector in an attempt to privatize it.