How can health systems make progress towards financing UHC? What are the different approaches? And why don't voluntary contribution and out-of-pocket systems perform as well? Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Global Health, Zoe Mullan, is joined by Irene Agyepong and Joseph Kutzin to discuss how funding affects UHC, in the first of a series of podcasts spotlighting UHC's importance to health. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to Universal Health Coverage here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/universal-health-coverage?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc