Universal Health Care - NYTimes.com Re "My State Needs Obamacare. Now" (Op-Ed, Sept. Steve Beshear, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, makes a powerful and eloquent case for the urgency of Obamacare now. However, what's really needed in this country is universal health care through a single-payer system. It's a shame that such a wealthy country as ours squanders its resources on a vast military complex rather than on a government-run health care program that, as is well known, is a cheaper, more efficient and more humane alternative to the unhealthy, broken health care system we now have. I wish more of our politicians, including President Obama, had the courage to tell the people of this country that universal health care is a basic human right that the government should provide. Madison, Wis., Sept.