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Samara Martins: Críticas ao superávit primário e à privatização da saúde #Shorts
35 statements · 1 politicians · August 12, 2026 · 3 min
Statements by Samara Martins. 35 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Fiscal and Social Policy, Monetary Policy, Public Health and Hospital Infrastructure.
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- Against
About: guarantee primary surplus
to freeze or further withhold funds, under a fiscal framework meant to ensure the so‑called primary surplus.
- Against
About: guarantee primary surplus
So, all these savings they keep saying need to be made — you can't pay public servants, you have to freeze, you have to reduce, you have to defund the SUS, you have to freeze SUS investments to guarantee a primary surplus, which is to pay the interest on the public debt, so that these speculators get richer and richer.
- Neutral
About: pay higher interest on public debt
A study by a professor at PUC São Paulo said that a billionaire who invests in the debt can make 400,000 reais per day.
So, it's absurd.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS
And this brings us, incidentally, to what I said at the start when I introduced myself: the privatization of health.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS through social organizations
They want to privatize the Unified Health System (SUS) through social organizations.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS through social organizations
Social organizations — they say they are non-profit entities, which is... a sham.
It's a sham.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS through social organizations
There's another professor at UFAL, the Federal University of Alagoas, who says it's the biggest lie.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS through social organizations
It's a myth that social organizations are non-profit.
- Against
About: invest resources from the Health Fund in the stock market
Because he says they take resources from the Health Fund and invest them in the Stock Exchange.
- Against
About: invest resources from the Health Fund in the stock market
to get the money to yield returns — the money that is ours.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS through social organizations
And they say, 'no, we are not for-profit.'
- Against
About: privatize the SUS
But they are speculating with health money and undermining the service.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS through social organizations
Because before it was just for administration; now it's already in the core activities, which are hiring people — hiring dentists, hiring doctors.
- Against
About: privatize the SUS
So they're privatizing the SUS.
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
I've been advocating that we return to the sanitarian reform, to defending the SUS, to a universal SUS, because our people sometimes... forget what the popular struggle was to achieve the SUS.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
The popular struggle that fought to guarantee the SUS's existence.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
Before the SUS, there were no small health posts.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
There were no basic health units like the ones we have now.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
To ensure that everyone, regardless of how much money they have, receives health care.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
That our money be used for that.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
You had to have a work card to be able to use the health system.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
And then they created the funds.
Desconhecido
Only those who worked there, and such.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
You had to contribute to social security or rely on philanthropy.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
So those Santa Casas and so on.
- Neutral
About: guarantee universal care by SUS as provided in the Constitution
To be able to cover those who didn't work.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: suspend payment of the public debt
If you suspend the... payment of the debt, what are the first serious problems you think you'll face in Brazil?
- Neutral
About: suspend payment of the public debt
The first problem is a class issue, right?
- Neutral
About: suspend payment of the public debt
So you'll have an offensive from the ruling class, which will no longer receive all that money they were collecting.
And so what do we want to do?
The people on our side.
Our people need to know what we are doing.
About: suspend payment of the public debt
And we'll say: we're going to do it and we want the people on our side, because we're going to stop paying the debt in order to increase the resources of the...
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