| “The program of the Ministry of Health has ‘election’ interests and it is ‘opportunistic.’ “ “The More Doctors Program was evidence of a failure for the Ministry of Health.” “The More Doctors Program is a great myth that is not sustainable in the long term. The Cubans will go back home one day, won’t they? It’s not possible that we have taken 26 years to find out the solution is to import Cuban physicians.” |
The More Doctors Program is restricted to emergency provision, and is palliative, transitory and electoral in nature. An insufficient and inadequate program. |
| "The government failed, since it did not invest in measures such as support for the family health program and increase investments in the sector. They imported physicians because they haven’t graduated. They didn’t support family physicians.” |
Pertinence and emphasis of family health. Need for training of professionals, in particular, family physicians. |
| “The More Doctors Program is 80% propaganda and 20% effectiveness. The same government that makes this propaganda is the government that allowed the exclusion of 13,000 hospital beds in Brazil and left hospitals in misery.” "The More Doctors Program is an excellent program, but it’s like a water tank truck in health care. We have to equip hospitals, give structure to physicians so that they can perform their work." |
The program is restricted to emergency provision, and is palliative transitory ion nature. The problem is insufficient investment in hospitals. An insufficient and inadequate program. It highlights hospitals in the system. |
| "The question regarding the More Doctors Program, the program is important, but it’s not the solution of all programs in Brazil. The participation of the federal government [in health financing] decreased from 54% to 45% during the PT administration. I see health as a broader situation." |
Insufficient federal financing in the sector. |
| "I criticize the More Doctors Program, I never imagined that it was possible to implement a public health policy criminalizing the physicians or turning the population against Brazilian physicians." "Regarding the More Doctors Program, it’s terrible that the PT administration has deliberately turned the population against Brazilian physicians, as if they were responsible for the poor work conditions and especially for the omissions of the federal government on the health financing issue." |
This view proposes regulations, is against the program, and criticizes the work and interests of physicians, and intends to criminalize physicians and cause the population to hate them. A priori, the physicians are right, unquestionable. A priori, the state and government are wrong. Maintenance of status and symbolic power of physicians in relation to the society and state. |
| "We are no longer producing physicians. We are financing a failed government, which is the Cuban government." "We will finance Cuban physicians, not the Cuban government." "We won’t accept the rules imposed by Cuba." |
Association of the Brazilian government with the Cuban regime and its policies. Communist danger in Brazil. |
| "We will pay the Cuban physicians from the More Doctors Program the same amount paid to foreigners." "Ensure that the Brazilian government will guarantee that they receive the same remuneration as other physicians.” |
Exploration of the Cuban regime regarding the professionals of their country. Naturalization of the distinction and status of physicians. Need to protect them from the State control. |
