The neoliberal discourse and the privatization of brazilian public health
Neoliberal discourse. Public health. Privatization. Analysis of Discourse. Sense effects.
This thesis aims to analyze the effects of meaning that the neoliberal discourse produces in the privatization of Brazilian Public Health. The corpus was extracted from letters of Pero Vaz de Caminha and of Temer to President Dilma, documents ordering World Bank investments in Brazil (Governance in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS): improving the quality of public spending and resource management; 20 years of construction of the health system in Brazil: an analysis of the Unified Health System), the document of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) “A Bridge to the future”, images and excerpts from reports, cartoons that circulated in the internet at the time of the approval of Constitutional Amendment 95, and Constitutional Amendment 95 itself. The study demonstrated that the neoliberal discourse produces senses of naturalization and rationality of Health as an “expenditure”, however, “Health-expenditure” has its meaning shifted to “Health-commodity”, being its salable character the justification for the resumption of economic growth after privatization.