Abstract
This paper reflects on the games between warranties of rights and Sanitary Reform regarding health privatization. We performed an analysis of the relationships established between State, law and economy to understand the processes of health privatization in Brazil over the last decades. The conceptual tools have been inspired by Foucauldian discussions about forms of government of life. We regard the Sanitary Reform as an investment in a State in which social policies do not depend of economic policies. We consider that law has migrated from the politics sphere to the consumption sphere in order to turn some of the principles of the Sanitary Reform, such as the universality of access, into universality of access to consumption. In neoliberalism, political economy rationality has enabled social policy, such as the one designed by the Sanitary Reform, to become a social economic policy.
Keywords:
health policies; biopolitics; privatization; neoliberalism