Crisis and Legitimation: Study on the Justification of Regimes Applied to the Healthcare Field

Abstract

Introduction:
The Government of Portugal has faced numerous criticism by the public arena in the recent years to the detriment of advanced changes in its healthcare sector. Objective: The aim of this theoretical reflection article is to verify whether arguments about changes in the national healthcare system in Italy and Portugal have evidenced the emergence of new justification logics. Methods: Technical analysis used as documentary analysis applied to journalistic reports and to results recorded for multiple case studies. Results: A new justification logics called “Troika” has emerged. This logics is based on the common principle that donor countries play a mediating role by agreeing to lend money to countries in financial crisis, i.e., they are committed to help these countries to solve their main social and economic problems. Subjects involved in this new logics include countries financially capable of lending money and countries that need it. State Dignity is based on full repayment of incurred debt, whereas Ratio of Greatness helps loan target states to repay their debts and to get out of their recessionary economic condition. Based on this new logic, Form Investment advocates for the credibility gain production for indebted countries through released reports and notes at press conferences. Stakeholders include contracts and meetings. Credibility is the Key Expression of this new logics. According to this new logic, Justification Fallacy happens when the country lending the money is stigmatized as bad lender. Conclusion: Despite the constraints, the new justification regime is likely to be legitimized as the sense of common good. Supporting devices result in advantages for citizens in indebted countries.