The election of one of the socialist faces for the Health portfolio does not initially convince the opposition parties. They give Manuel Pizarro room to demonstrate his competence, but the militant poster leaves the opposition with both feet behind. The Liberal Initiative even remembers the name of bad memory -José Sócrates-, in the reaction message to the Government’s nomination.
“The election of Manuel Pizarro as Minister of Health means that António Costa is happy with the state of health in Portugal and that he has no intention of changing the policies that led to the collapse of the SNS and that the Government always has one more faithful than the other. apparatus of the PS and ex-governor of José Sócrates”, said Joana Cordeiro, coordinator of the Liberal Initiative group in the Parliament’s Health Commission.
tell the ILLINOIS that the “appointment is bad news for all Portuguese who have an alternative to the SNS when they most need health care.” “As long as they do not recognize the catastrophic effects of their policy and do not reform the health system as a whole in the sense of competition between providers and people’s freedom of choice, António Costa will always be the main person responsible for the dire state of the SNS”, says Liberal Initiative.
Chega speaks of a “predictable election” that entails “two risks”: “It has been another boy of the PS who is a specialist in the area of health” and an “excessive politicization of health that will be taken to the extreme”.
André Ventura says that the He comes it gives the “benefit of the doubt to those who will take office”, while describing the choice of the prime minister as “coherent” considering the other options in the “main government portfolios”.
He too left block He has already reacted to the election of António Costa for Health with Catarina Martins considering, in a Twitter post, that “it does not guarantee any change”. “Saving the SNS requires retaining professionals, more investment and fewer vetoes. Nothing changes with the same policy”, says the Bloco.
EITHER PCP He does not worry so much about “who is coming”, seeming indifferent to the name of Manuel Pizarro, but about politics. For Rádio Observador, João Dias says that “more than knowing who is coming, it is important to know what is coming”.
“We have to break with the powerful installed powers. Here is someone who knows the SNS and the Ministry of Health, who has even more responsibilities in breaking with established interests. At PCP we want an SNS that responds, but we are aware that this is what serves the population. The concern is that it does not continue along the same path, with the same music that we danced to,” said the deputy, who is also a health professional.
The only member of the SKILLET, Inês Sousa Real has doubts that Manuel Pizarro is really aware of the current state of the National Health Service, considering the years he has dedicated to politics. “Despite Manuel Pizarro’s training, we cannot forget that he has been more linked to political life and further away from the practical context of the SNS. We hope that they know how to look at the real needs of the SNS, recognize the importance of the SNS and the appreciation of the professionals for the people who really need it”, the deputy told Rádio Observador.
The People-Animals-Nature deputy says that the party “preferred another profile”, since “the political audacity to invest in the National Health Service has been lacking”, and presses Pizarro: “We hope that he knows how to focus on the essential and necessary measures so that the SNS does not continue to shrink”.
Source: Observadora
