Global and national efforts to meet the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expanded basic health-care coverage to tackle infectious diseases and child mortality. These efforts met with some success. However, a focus solely on health-care coverage is unlikely to be sufficient to meet sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. To reach this goal, we need to address a critical issue: the quality of health care.