Drauzio defends the public healthcare system (SUS) for the poor and private healthcare for the rich.
In an article, physician Drauzio Varella challenges the universality of the Unified Health System (SUS), as defended by Minister Ricardo Barros, and says that the wealthiest should pay for healthcare; "The discussion would come at an opportune moment: if there isn't enough money for everyone, let the wealthiest segments of the population take care of their own health and leave the SUS to those who have no alternative. Isn't that logical?", he questions.
Health 247 – In an article published this Saturday (May 29), physician Drauzio Varella questions the universality of the Unified Health System, which was once defended by Minister Ricardo Barros.
"In an interview with Cláudia Collucci, the current Minister of Health even suggested that the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system) needed to be resized. Faced with the outcry, it seems he backed down. I don't know what he meant by this resizing, but it was a shame he backed down. The discussion would have come at an opportune moment: if there isn't enough money for everyone, let the wealthier segments of the population take care of their own health and leave the SUS to those who have no alternative. Isn't that logical?", he says.
"It's time to put aside the utopian hypocrisy and ideological strabismus of the past," he states.
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