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Circene said in an interview on Latvian Radio that the pressure on her from general practitioners' organizations was unjustified. She believes that they would stand to benefit from the planned reforms in the health care, nevertheless, "those who babbled the loudest, won" – president of Latvian Family Physicians' Association Pauls Princis, who intends to run in the Saeima elections as Ventspils Party candidate, and ex-president of the association – Sarmite Veide, who has decided to join Inguna Sudraba's party. "The task assigned these persons is to "always oppose everything and everyone," Circene pointed out.

She believes that other medics support the changes in the structure for funding, but the loudest voices come from certain association members, who base their negative attitude on personal dislike of Circene.

She says that she is not angry at Unity as a party. "Unity is not the problem, the problem is individual people," Circene said, adding that Unity is a professional party that has chosen the appropriate strategy in cooperating with regional political organizations, nevertheless, "some party members behave and act like populists."

Circene also criticized Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity), indicating that they had opposing opinions about what needs to be done in order to improve the situation in the health care field. Circene believed that reforms had to be implemented, while Straujuma was focused on "avoiding any disputes during the pre-election period."

When Valdis Dombrovskis' (Unity) was in office, health care had more support than it does now, she pointed out.