The Sun Journal exposé of hospital executive salaries in Maine (Feb. 14) demonstrated that the distance between Wall Street and Main Street is shrinking. The “they’ll leave if we don’t pay them …” refrain seems particularly unconscionable given the millions going without needed health care due to lack of ability to pay, and the thousands who literally die each year for the same reason.

It helps to explain why it’s less expensive to go to Thailand and elsewhere for surgical procedures.

This is not about any of these executives actually needing this much money every year; it’s about ego and greed. Other than doctors, those actually giving care to patients day in and day out are way at the other end of the pay scale.

What’s wrong with that picture?

Mary Ann Larson, New Gloucester