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Have the $25 entree special. you say well, number one, i don't want it. number two, i don't like the food and number three, i can't afford it. well, fine. that's not the issue. you can either have the $25 or you can have nothing. here's the problem. you've got people who are 35-year-old single males who have to have maternity coverage. i'm pretty sure a 35-year-old male isn't going to deliver a baby. people have who have to have insurance for children they don't have. it's about the unsustainable dysfunction of obama care itself. >> in terms of the political stakes at play right now, the fallo...

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 about men being asked to buy maternity coverage, for example. it's a great headline. >> right. >> but ca...

Telling me now that the plans that they have, over half of these plans are not is going to be grandfathered in. you're 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. you'll be forced to have a obama care plan that's 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 don't have to have maternity coverage. this is what my brain room tells me. they have some bells and whistles t...

We'll see you in a few minutes. >> thanks for having me. jon: there's 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. let's just say at the top that there have been people who have been helped by obamacare and the new exchanges, no question about that. but the unintended consequences o...

Going to be losing their coverage. i think that group was -- >> what was the argument for that? i saw that. i said it can't be right. is it the employers realizing it's too expensive to carry coverage and throw them on exchanges? >> exactly. the exchange is a way for them to fall back on it. that's an option that wasn't necessarily there before. the administration says 15 million people. manhattan institute said 93 million people. the truth is somewhere between those two numbers. that's a ton of people. >> the early signs of this when ibm and time warner and big companies do that with their ex...