Debate Over Nursing Bill Continues

By Dan Bobkoff

Boston, MA – A contentions health care bill is making its way to the floor of the Massachusetts House of Representatives tomorrow. The nurses' union wants limits on the number of hospital patients under an individual nurse's care at any one time. The hospitals say it's dangerous and arbitrary to define a nurse to patient ratio for all nurses.

WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Dan Bobkoff has the story.