. >> that includes 56-year-old diane barrett. last month, she received a letter from blue cross blue shield informing her as of january 2014 she would lose her current plan. she pays $54 a month. the new plan would run $581 more a month. >> now, i found that story to be over simplified, because the further interviews with diane barrett showed what she has now is a junk plan. it doesn't cover hospitalization costs. maybe that's what she wants, but she also could get into a plan that was maybe more expensive, but not ten times expensive, cheaper than she perhaps realized. what do you think of this whole approach of zeroing in on people like diane barrett? >> this is a simple go-to form. you take one person and use that person to highlight the problems. it makes for much better television. but i think we owe the viewers more than that and it's hard to do. it's so much easier to sit down and interview a person one-on-one and say yes, this is bad, and made it black and white. the "new york times" had an article this week where they ha

fox news has pounced on people like diane barrette. with one of those stories. just watch how fox used her to trot out their tired old talking points about the law. >> did this happen to you? a florida woman finds out she has to pay ten times as much for health insurance that is because she's using her current plan to obama care. i got a copy of your florida blue insurance. and about $54 a month. now i understand that under obama care it's going to go up at least they said that the policy they would offer you under florida blue would be $591. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> but all that spin hides the truth. a new republic reporter tracked diane down and explained how obama care plans could provide much better coverage and for just $50 to $100 more a month. her response, quote, i would jump at it. with my age things can happen. i don't want to have bills that could make me bankrupt. i don't want to lose my house. i would jump at it. as would millions of americans who don't have insurance or who have insurance so bad it doesn't really cover anything anyway

. >> that includes 56-year-old diane barrett. last month, she received a letter from blue cross/blue shield informing her that as of january 2014, she would lose her current plan. she pays $54 a month. the new plan she's being offered would run $591 a month. >> these are people that love their plan, they want to keep their plan, and they're not able to get a plan. >> you should be asking yourself, just what kind of policy is this? does it cover the things you would want insurance to cover? does it cover hospitalization or doctors' visits or prescriptions, or is the insurance being dropped insurance in name only, also known as a junk policy? if the report doesn't say, you're not getting the whole story. next, and this is important, you will see story after story featuring a letter from an insurance company bearing bad news. >> letters in the mail alerting people they or their doctors are being dropped by their insurance company. >> individual policy-holders getting letters from their insurance companies. >> letters are hitting mai