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At least 400 million people do not have enough access to one or more necessary health services

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs395/en/

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"Every year 100 million people are pushed into poverty and 150 million people suffer financial catastrophe because of out-of-pocket expenditure on health services."

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Universal Health Coverage covers essential services, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care.

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People should be protected against financial-risk, making sure that the cost of using services does not put people at risk of going into debt.

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WHO says that these are necessary services in any good UHC system, family planning, antenatal and delivery care, full child immunization, care for child illness, prevention and treatment of raised blood pressure and glucose, cervical cancer screening, basic hospital access, access to medicine, and health security

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It supports that the quality of services should be good enough to improve the health of those receiving said services

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UHC can be monitored by focusing on the proportion of a population that can access necessary health services and the proportion of the population that spends a large amount of household income on health

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Universal health care does not mean every thing in health care is free, because no country can provide that.

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Universal health coverage supports equity in access to health services, everyone who need health care should have some, not only those who can pay for them

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Good health provides the base for long-term economic development.

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"Protecting people from the financial consequences of paying for health services out of their own pockets reduces the risk that people will be pushed into poverty because unexpected illness requires them to use up their life savings, sell assets, or borrow – destroying their futures and often those of their children."

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Universal health care means that everyone can receive the health services they need without falling into debt.

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On average, about 32% of each country’s health expenditure comes from out-of-pocket payments.