Nurses support Keith Ellison for Attorney General because he:
- Pressed hospitals on the need to provide adequate PPE for workers in the early days of the pandemic
- Strongly supports the collective power of nurses bargaining collectively to solve the problems in our hospitals
- Expressed deep concern with mergers and other corporate practices which consolidate the power of hospital CEOs and distort priorities in our healthcare system
- Opposes a UnitedHealthcare merger
- Pledged to work with nurses to ensure Minnesota hospitals live up to their community responsibilities, to hold executives accountable to put Patients Before Profits in Minnesota
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Understands the way rising healthcare costs and stagnant wages are affecting nurses and patients alike in Minnesota
- Reiterated his commitment to helping all Minnesotans afford their lives and to live with dignity and respect.