A mercantilização na saúde e a hegemonia do capital financeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Rodrigo de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15965
• topic: Health policy; Productive forces; Interest filled capital; Políticas de saúde; Forças produtivas; Capital portador de juros; Privatização Brasi; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This dissertation examines how the logic of capital has penetrated in health as a result of the need for expansion of productive forces. It intends to confirm the process in which the capital, in order to metamorphose its needs into universal needs, extends its production bases and makes it seem that, to achieve better health levels, the whole area needs to rely on increasingly large injections of capital. This dependency, altogether ideological, produces and creates the means for the reproduction of its contradictions in all branches of healthcare. It s on this stream that the interest-filled capital shall determine the processes of production and reproduction in this specific area, aiming at achieving exorbitant profits, to the extent of sentencing hundreds of thousands of lives to uncertainty, pain and even death of body and soul, due to the lack of medical care and health policy. Healthcare projects currently in struggle are rendered problematic, emphasizing the counter-hegemonic project of the Sanitary Reform produced in the 70 s. Health is tackled by its relevance and by the need of transposing it it to the highest level of humanitarian value, from a tangential concern, to processes experienced in everyday life among those who are working, to enable access to a growing and diversified crowd that requires, while workers, rights over products and health services. Taking as reference the industrial complex of health, in the context of financial capital hegemony, its consolidation is made clear in the widening of accumulation and concentration before the historical capital need of settling on material bases and articulating to interest filled capital. Today that process supports this way of production and ensures its production/reproduction by means of increasing invention of fictitious capital. In Brazil, as social policies are being privatized, the concentration of capital, investment plans and the growth of shareholding companies are funded by public resources by means of programs of the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Social (Social Development National Bank).