Jim McGovern

What's the conversation today?

In Worcester, Massachusetts right now, if you stop in Kelly Square and ask somebody about their health insurance, are they seeing these increases in dropping off the rolls?

Or are they saying, I can't afford it anyway, so to your point, I'm gonna go to the emergency room when I get a call.

So I mean, we're hearing some really terrible stories of people basically saying, I can't afford my health insurance.

Our office is getting inundated with calls.

Look, people in Worcester just want us to do our job.

And they get it.

There are differences between Democrats and Republicans.

But at the end of the day, they want us to get something done.

You don't have to agree on everything to agree on something.

But whatever that something is, it has to be about improving the quality of life for the people who live in Worcester and all around the country.

And the problem with some of what the Senate did on the Republican side is the stuff that they're proposing

You know, it doesn't mean anything in anybody's life.

I mean, you know, saying I'm fixing healthcare, but in reality not fixing healthcare, not making it more affordable, well, that doesn't help anybody, right?

You know, we ought to have a larger discussion on how we fix our entire healthcare system, because it's a mess.

It's too for-profit oriented.

But we're not going to do that in a week or two, right?

Right now, we need to extend these tax credits so that millions of people don't see their premium skyrocket and millions don't lose their health insurance.

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