A política de saúde e os farmacêuticos argentinos diante do neoliberalismo e do neo-desenvolvimentismo (1991– 2009)

Abstract

The present work focuses on the performance of Argentine pharmacists in the dispute for the regulation of the sale and distribution of medicines. From 1989, the Carlos Menem government establishes a series of liberalizing measures; we will give special attention to Decree nº 2.284/91, the initial mark of our problematic, as it promotes the economic deregulation in the country. The decree in question allowed for the free importation of medicinal products and the marketing of those products outside pharmacies. Because of the crisis of the neoliberal experiment, in the late 1990s, coalitions were willing to reorganize the political arrangement, strengthening state intervention in strategic spaces through social policies and regulations. In 2009, with Act 26,567/09, which repealed the economic deregulation for the drug trade, we closed our time cut.