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Its a day whatever of whatever. >> a congresswoman challenged kathleen about coverage you might not need like paternity coverage for males. >> the policy covers family. men do need maternity coverage for their spouses and families, yes. >> single male age 32 does not need maternity coverage. to the best of your knowledge has a man ever delivered a baby. >> yes. >> theyre called ob/gyns. six people have enrolled on the sixth day. speaking of good intentions.

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Find out why more than two million members count on angies list. angies list -- reviews you can trust. the talk around obama care has tended toward the extreme. this week weve reached the absurd. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius appeared on the hill to apologize for the botched rollout of m healthcare.gov and answer all sorts of bizarre questions. >> men often do need maternity coverage for their spouses and for their families, yes. >> single male, age 32, does not need ma...

Suddenly have to pay more and thats nobody -- everybody would think that would be ridiculous as well. >> well, thats the situation we have now. people may not realize but in 25 states right now you cannot buy an individual policy with insurance -- with maternity coverage, period. you have to pay for it out of your own pocket, nobody thinks thats a great idea. >> no. as a father of three kids, we saw that and heard a lot about it. consumers who are getting these cancellations notices and their bo...

Have the $25 entree special. you say well, number one, i dont want it. number two, i dont like the food and number three, i cant afford it. well, fine. thats not the issue. you can either have the $25 or you can have nothing. heres the problem. youve got people who are 35-year-old single males who have to have maternity coverage. im pretty sure a 35-year-old male isnt going to deliver a baby. people have who have to have insurance for children they dont have. its about the unsustainable dysfunct...

Visits. the new policies that are being sold have to cover all that stuff. >> and they offer certain protections in terms of, again, not being discriminated against on pre-existing conditions. people get sick, sometimes people could be dropped or their premiums go could up, all those sorts of things. >> the whole purpose of the new law was to replace the individual insurance market which has not worked well for people with anything wrong for them for many years. >> when you hear the stories abou...

Telling me now that the plans that they have, over half of these plans are not is going to be grandfathered in. youre not going to fall under if you like your plan you can keep it. new ball of wax for these people too when? when does that start? >> january 1, 2014. youll be forced to have a obama care plan thats not amenable to the kind of insurance you like. >> the employer plans are not required to have all the bells and whistles that the plans in the individual market are. they dont have to h...

Well see you in a few minutes. >> thanks for having me. jon: theres a i new perspective on the hard. reality of the -- hard. reality. everyday americans are seeing those insurance policies that they had canceled and sky-high premiums for a variety of reasons. many say all they can do now is hope for the best. josh roberts live from our -- john roberts live from our atlanta bureau with that. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. lets just say at the top that there have been people who have been hel...

Going to be losing their coverage. i think that group was -- >> what was the argument for that? i saw that. i said it cant be right. is it the employers realizing its too expensive to carry coverage and throw them on exchanges? >> exactly. the exchange is a way for them to fall back on it. thats an option that wasnt necessarily there before. the administration says 15 million people. manhattan institute said 93 million people. the truth is somewhere between those two numbers. thats a ton of peop...