Akhila S T, Department of Law, University of Kerala I. Introduction Universal health coverage rests on a deceptively simple promise: that every person, wherever they live and however much they earn, can obtain the health services they need — preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative — without being ruined by the cost of care. The philosophy of UHC rests on the proposition that health is a fundamental human right, a principle traceable to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human...