Mr. President, your priorities are flawed.

Mr. President, you and your administration are on a crash course to overhaul a program that has been in existence for decades, yes health care needs some reform. However, you are ducking issues such as Afghanistan, recession, crime, deficit, Taliban, Iran, North Korea, arms reduction, unemployment, education, immigration, energy, national debt and taxes ­- just to name a few areas that need your immediate attention.

Your commanders in Afghanistan have presented you and the Congress a harsh assessment of the deterioration conditions and have requested thousands of troops to help win the war, you have ignored their request.

What is the rush with health care reform?

No one will die if the reforms does not happen in the next three, six or nine months or a year.

Concentrate on what needs to be fixed now.

Silvio Pontarelli

Mount Prospect