THE COMMODIFICATION OF HEALTH IN THE FACE OF COVID-19: THE STRENGTHENING OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR

This article aims to present how the private health sector has been strengthened and expanded with state support, in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic, to the detriment of the public and state SUS. To this end, a reflection was initially carried out on the scenario of deepening the economic crisis and social inequality with the pandemic and how the Federal Government has been conducting actions to combat this crisis, favoring the interests of capital. In the second moment, we sought to analyze how the commodification of health has been strengthened with state support to Supplementary Health and, within the SUS, with the inverted complementarity and through the hiring of Social Organizations (OSS). Moreover, it was presented, preliminary, how the private sector in health has sought to expand from the return of philanthropic practices, headed by the financial sector.