POLÍTICA DE SAÚDE FACE AOS AVANÇOS NEOLIBERAIS E A IMPLANTAÇÃO DA EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE SERVIÇOS HOSPITALARES (EBSERH)

Abstract

At times of crisis and strengthening of the market in public policy, the federal government decide “to fix” the deficiencies of the Federal University Hospitals (HUs), that experienced the most precarious times in the human resources areas, in funding and management mainly. The creation of the National Restructuring Programme of the Federal University Hospitals (REHUF) in the educational institutions came to act like a stopgap, primarily with regard to innovation in tech areas and the adequacy of physical structure of these hospitals. However, the REHUF could not solve the shocking problems, like inefficiencies of management, thus, the Federal Government decided to implant the Brazilian Company of Hospital Services (EBSERH), a public company of private law, linked to Ministry of Education (MEC), as a business corporation. The entry by this company into Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (HC-UFTM) caused a lot of discussions and debates that objectified to evaluate if this implantation serves more the market optics, leaving to comply with the basic principles of the Brazilian Government’s Unified Health System (SUS) and strengthening the actual ultra-liberal policy. For the achievement of the investigation, it was used literature search and documental, complemented by case study. The theory used in the study is based upon authors that stand out the positioning of the State referring to Public Policy, the unaccountability of the State regarding the management of public affairs and about the market optics and the new management models. The methodology used was by means of exploratory study of approach predominantly qualitative, because the qualitative data analysis is wider, not rigorous. As result of this research, it was possible to learn we live in dark times of intermittent market advances about the Public Policies, and the Health Policy is seen as profitable source to this end. The entry of EBSERH in HUs may be legal, but it is a setback in the implementation trajectory of the Health Policy and penalizes the claimant population, the workers.