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Sustainability of the More Doctors Program as a public policy
Pinto, Hêider Aurélio; Andreazza, Rosemarie; Ribeiro, Renato Janine; Loula, Maria Rosa; Reis, Ademar Arthur Chioro dos
The consistent and thoughtful comments made by Alcindo Ferla, Mara De Sordi, and Tiago Correia (to whom we thank) on our article converge as to the relevance and complexity of the approach and analysis of the education axis to the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) of the More Doctors Program (PMM) as a public policy. They particularly contribute with other potential approaches to the topic and to the need for a deeper analysis. Should they had already been dealt with in the main article, these approaches and analysis would have resulted in a more powerful contribution than the original one.
Our challenge now is to discuss the new issues pointed out by the debaters and to foster elements to a discussion aimed at the sustainability of a policy that is being contested and that will face the challenge of being centrally conducted, as of 2019, by those who were its main opponents in the political scenario in which it was constituted.
