Letter: Is the paper up to it?

Editor, Daily News:

What is wrong with this picture? Cleveland Clinic wants to come to Naples.

Naples Community Hospital loudly protests, saying enough beds exist. Clinic is allowed in.

NCH soon gets OK to expand beds. Clinic, world renowned for heart care and surgery, asks to add open-heart unit and gets turned down — a big loss to our area.

NCH suddenly and surprisingly gets OK on heart unit and keeps expanding. Other hospitals come in with beds, but NCH now has lion's share of health-care volume.

Clinic is bailing out. So-called "expert pundits" say Cleveland Clinic was losing money.

If so, could heart unit have helped, as NCH will surely make a bundle offering nowhere near the first-class expertise of Cleveland Clinic (to the detriment of our citizens)?

My point? Why didn't we get the best expertise available originally? One must wonder if any untoward politics took place locally and/or at the state level.

Nah! That couldn't happen, could it?

Daily News, how about some investigative reporting on the progression and logic of these decisions?

Charles H. Bernhardt , Naples