How Massachusetts Health Care Companies Defeated Question 1
The nurses union-backed Question 1 would have established safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in Massachusetts — which is exactly why a hospital lobby group spent more than $30 million against it.
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Massachusetts nurses suffered a devastating defeat at the polls Tuesday as a union-led ballot initiative, Question 1, lost by more than two to one.
Question 1 would have improved hospital care by limiting the number of patients that bedside nurses could legally be assigned.
The ballot question was shepherded by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which represents nurses at 70 percent of the hospitals in the state, including forty-seven private and five public hospitals.
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