Programa Mais Médicos: embates políticos entre entidades médicas e o Estado.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the political debate between the main national medical entities and the Brazilian State around the PMM. The 'Mais Médicos' generated significant results to the population who didn't have any access to medical assistance. Those results weren't enough to appease the criticisms from the professional entities related to the medical field and doctors all around the country. Taking in consideration the west medicine history, it is observed that this profession is powerful in our society, being the hegemonic knowledge of the profession determinant to most of the population. The relationship among medicine, State and bourgeois class make possible political and economic strengthening of this profession. In Brazil this scenario wasn't different. In the face of these questions, the manifestations against PMM can have another meaning, they can be mediated by particular interests of the profession, also they can represent rank's interests. Qualitative research was the chosen option for this study, it was conducted through documental research and situation analysis, and historical neoinstitutionalism was chosen as theoretical support. The battle between medical entities and big part of the medical category against the PMM could not override the program, but it achieved important goals to ensure a certain profession's autonomy in relation to the State. The mobilization of the category against the PMM reached the National Congress, providing important connections with the opposition. There was strong adhesion of the medical category to these parties in 2014.In addition, the conflict of the medical movement was significant in opposition to Dilma Rousseff's reelection, that showed the claims against the PMM merged with the claims against Dilma's mandate.