Rahm Emanuel: “Insurance companies don't cover rural America.”

“Have everybody come out of the exchanges that exist state by state and buy into that exchange and then you're expanding the true public option, where in fact, in rural America today, you have a health care desert. Insurance companies don't cover rural America. Get them the insurance companies, the 27 of them that are in the federal exchange that participate in covering federal employees from the president all the way down and members of Congress, Senate.” (07:50–07:53)

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