Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find out podcast. We have a a very very big show for you today we have the

governor from the best state in the country governor janet mills of maine governor thank you for

joining us today where's your applause button tim oh i know I should. No, don't get him started with that.

Everybody knows that I'm from Maine too, so, but like it is the best state.

We don't have to talk about it anymore.

Governor, thank you again.

So I want to start with some breaking news, which is relevant to Maine. We just heard that there were at least four Republicans who have joined with all of the Democrats in the House to sign a discharge petition to extend the ACA tax

credits were obviously very important to Mainers. We'd love to get your first reaction to that

and sort of talk about how if the what happens to Mainers if these tax credits actually do expire.

Great. I mean, look, I wrote to Congress a month and a half ago and said,

you've got to extend these tax credits. They're so critical. Tens of thousands of, more than 60,000

people that we know of are using those tax credits. People who've gone out on a limb to start

a new business, a small business, people who are self-employed, gig workers, they all depend on

those tax credits to stay healthy, stay insured. And without those tax credits, I mean, I can tell you,

there are tens of thousands of people who probably will have to drop the insurance because they

can't afford it. It's going to triple, in some cases, quadruple the monthly premiums for people in

Maine. And, you know, we're in older state. People need health insurance. Look, we've got people

who are going to drop the insurance. What's that mean for the rest of people, people who work

in large employers with large employers who continue to have health insurance? It means the

insurance rates are

going to go up even further, even higher for them as well, because the cost of uninsured is huge,

too.

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