Is Universal Health Care an Attainable Goal?

The United Nations will soon exchange one set of eight aspirational goals for the world for a far more sweeping list that includes slowing climate change, providing universal health care coverage, and ending severe poverty in all nations.

The end of this year marks the deadine for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will show a mixed record of success. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focus on seventeen themes to be embraced by all world governments, along with a gamut of UN agencies and their closely allied multilateral institutions and bilateral donors, including the United States’ global health and development agencies.