Experts say that the best way to improve health outcomes is actually simple: ensure that people have access to quality health care. Some call for universal health coverage (UHC), which is the ability of all people to go to a doctor for preventive care or when they are sick, and then to pay for the care they receive. International organizations such as the United Nations, the , and the are urging countries to provide UHC by 2030, going so far as to include a specific target to achieve UHC in the UN . However, even before the COVID-19 , the goal to extend UHC to an additional one billion people was not being met. The pandemic’s strain on resources and economies has further limited progress in financing universal health care.
