The Unified Health System (SUS) should receive more investments in this new government. On the subject, in an interview with CNN this Saturday (7), the president of Unimed, Luiz Paulo Tostes Coimbra, said that complementary health and the SUS can work together to guarantee rights in Brazil.
“It must be difficult to manage the SUS with so much diversity. I think that strengthening supplementary health also strengthens the SUS. You can’t have a health that is so different from SUS and private health”, he highlights.
Coimbra defends that there is a link between the government and supplementary health, to improve the life of the citizen and people’s access to health care. In this case, the more individuals seek private healthcare, the less burdened the SUS will be.
“If today there are 220 million inhabitants and 50 million are in supplementary health, the SUS has 170 million people to care for. If the number goes to 60 million, the SUS will have 10 million less to take care of”, he exemplifies. “And, at the same time, if you make a strategic public partnership, things will be sustained over time”.
*Under supervision of Ingrid Alfaya
Source: CNN Brasil
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