On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said that the tax credits are needed to keep the Affordable Care Act affordable, the healthcare system as a whole is “a mess.” And “if it was up to me, we would have a Medicare for all system.”

McGovern said, “We need to be talking about extending the ACA tax credits so that people can afford their health insurance.”

He added, “We ought to have a larger discussion about 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 premiums skyrocket and millions don’t lose their health insurance.”

Later, after repeating that we need

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