Processo de golpe e a relação entre público e privado na política de saúde brasileira

Abstract

The depletion of neo-developmentalism was instrumentalized by a coup process against the Brazilian democratic system. The resulting changes refer to the resumption of the neoliberal model, dismantling public policies, especially social policies. It is assumed that the coup promoted an economic, political and social rupture, intensifying contradictions previously posed to the petist governments. In the area of health, there is a tendency to intensify private services in favor of scrapping the Unified Health System (SUS). Given this, the present study aimed to analyze the coup process and the relationship between public and private in the Brazilian Health Policy, and thus also to understand the health conceptions inserted in both sectors. The methodological course for the study was based on documentary and bibliographical analysis. Even with the principle of universality of the SUS, Brazilian health has become a hybrid system, defined as the Brazilian “Health Minotaur”; a relationship of reciprocal dependence, caused by a hybrid structure that does not allow the Unified Health System to be fully implemented in the country. Thus, there is a precariousness of the SUS concomitant with a concealed privatization of health.