The authors make comments about militancy in the field of healthcare, especially for defending the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) as a universal public policy. After indicating some strategies for such militancy, the text discusses centralism and the identifying nature of these practices. It highlights and questions four forms of centralism: the "common good" in its representations; procedures as offers of health technologies; users and notions about their needs/demands; and careless protection of life. As an alternative, the authors propose a new form of militancy within SUS, as intensive practice produced at the meeting point within the dimension of the relationship between managers, workers and users.
Health system; Healthcare policy; Public health; Ethics; Production of subjectivity