This letter is about the current state of taxpayer funded health care and the inherent unfairness of the policies that have been created in Washington D.C. My analysis has resulted in some observations and some questions.

Currently American taxpayers are paying for:

1. FREE health care for Afghani and Iraqi citizens that is paid for with U.S. tax dollars. Our funding for those wars includes money for health services. Consequently, even insurgents who go to a medical clinic will get treated for free and be released to return to their nefarious activities. Is it appropriate to deny me health care, yet force me to pay for health care for America's enemies?

2. FREE health care, including FREE prescription coverage for all criminals in custody, including the terrorists in Guantanamo, all paid for with U.S. tax dollars. Why are they more deserving than me or the millions of other taxpaying Americans who have no health insurance?

3. Health care for armed service veterans paid for with U.S. tax dollars. This system has produced radically lower costs and its recipients report that they are happier with their health plan than most any other group. Like you I support the VA. What I don't understand is why you don't support helping the taxpayers who fund it?

4. Taxpayer funded health care for seniors, paid for with U.S. tax dollars. Why should seniors get health care, but not me? Why can't I sign up for Medicare? If I want Part B, I'll pay $100 a month to get it. The minimum age for coverage is 65. This arbitrary age is meaningless. Rep Conyers has proposed a “Medicare for All” plan. If it's good for American seniors, why do you believe it's bad for other Americans?

5. Taxpayer funded health care for all police, fire and other government employees. I understand that they pay taxes, but so do I; and they get health care. Why is that fair? Are their lives worth more than mine? Is this tantamount to rationing potential care for the uninsured, whose tax dollars buy health insurance for this special group? If a public service worker is hurt on the job they have worker's compensation, so health care is just a taxpayer funded perquisite that's not available to other Americans.

6. Taxpayer funded health care for all members of Congress. Are they better than me? Are they better than all the other Americans who pay for their health care, but cannot access it?

7. Taxpayer funded health care for the poorest of our society, but not for the middle class? This is especially unfair, because the middle class pays the bulk of the tax money that pays for the taxpayer funded health care that others receive.

I recently heard former Senator Frist declare that the reason he's against allowing the U.S. government to negotiate lower costs with drug companies is because Americans fund the profits that drug companies use to research and develop more and better drugs. I assume you agree with this argument.

If this is the reason that Americans pay higher drug costs than anyone else in the world, then I have a few questions.

1. Why do some members of Congress want Americans to pay for the benefits of the French, the Canadians, the Brits and all the other socialized health care countries? Aren't Americans just as deserving as they are? If not, why not?

2. I do not believe the drug companies would stop doing research if they weren't funded by price-gouging the American taxpayer. I think they'd say to the French, the Canadians, the Brits, etc, “The days of picking American's pockets are over. You have to raise the amount you pay us.” There'd be some grumbling in Paris, London and Berlin, but they'd all pay an extra couple of Euro's per prescription and the world would go on. And we in the USA would be paying less.

Middle class taxpayers are being told that they have to stay in the back of the bus and pay the bus fare of all the “special” people who get taxpayer funded health care. People like murderers, child molesters, terrorists and our congressional representatives. Please explain why these groups are so special and the taxpayers who pay for it aren't?

I believe that Congress' failing to enact health care legislation that gives ALL taxpayers access to taxpayer funded health care is inherently unfair. It is discriminatory. It is divisive. It is wrong for America and bad for Americans.

I just don't understand Buchanan as a conservative. I think your goal in writing opinions are sensation and publicity. This article is a perfect example. You go to great lengths in describing how all who disagree with obama are denigrated when you say "But is it wise for the White House to denigrate and insult scores of thousands with the fire and energy to come to town meetings in August, and who appear to represent millions?" You also detail how white white men are being disenfranchised by a program like HR3200. HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO RACISM? It's not about race as much as the dems and apparently you want it to be. It's about the socialist policies of Obama and the progressives. I think we all want to provide health care to all Americans. We just don't want the government provide it. Let the free markets do it. It would be much more effective and efficient and it would not be necessary for government to gain even more control of our lives. That's what this about anyway...control....not health or reform.