"I think that we need to change the paradigm of thinking about public policy to look at rural Brazil, look at the regional differences, to look at the right to health care focused on the user. Change the role of the state in ensuring that trained professionals in public health, educated in public universities, or foreign professionals committed to Public Health, to ensure the presence of the state in the places where in fact you need access to health care services."

With the advent of the Lula government in 2003, there began to be a profound transformation, with the resurgence of the important issues that were amply discussed in national health conferences. The Lula government has provided much of what was always dreamed of and thought of by the militants is health care reform in relation to the participation of the poor in the SUS."

Francisco Batista Júnior, former president of the National Health Council and representative of the CNBB

"We did not have Single Health Care System. We started from a situation where people who needed health care were destitute and depended on the philanthropy to resolve the situation of citizens with rights. And for that there was never enough money. I usually say it is the 'all for all '. And no other World Country dared to make that promise. Do we have a problem? Yes we have a problem, but people today who do not know how it used to be, tend to see only the problems, but we have improved a lot. "