The global crisis of 2008 and the coup of capital in Brazilian health policy

Abstract

The objective of the article is to analyze the conjuncture after the 2014 presidential elections, by  discussing possible connections with the global  economic crisis and the unfolding of the 2016’s coup  d’etat in the health context. It is an opinion article that contemplated the analysis of the main political facts  of the period above mentioned. The results highlight  that the financialization of health, the fiscal  adjustment, the restoration of neoliberalism, and the  political clientelism of the right-wing political party  have caused the breakdown of the SUS (Unified Health System), facing some resistance of fronts and  progressive social movements. It is concluded the  need for accumulation of political energies to change  the correlation of forces in the current conjuncture.