Impactos da contrarreforma na política de saúde em tempos de pandemia no Brasil

Abstract

This is a theoretical essay with the purpose of analyzing health policy in Brazil today. For this, the foundations of the Sanitary Reform movement are presented, the legislation of the Unified Health System (SUS) in particular. Then, the effects of the Brazilian State counter-reformartion are dealt with, translated especially in the implementation of privatizing management models and in public funding, such as Constitutional Amendment No. 95/2016. As a result, a particularly dramatic scenario is pointed out in the current pandemic context of Covid-19, which unveils the devastating effect of the scrapping of health services, still permeated by the historical Brazilian social inequality, which has particularly harmful impacts for the most impoverished population of black and “pardo” citizens.