Thursday, November 07, 2013

Daily Kos: Obamacare 'rate shock' victim changes her mind, calls the law a 'blessing in disguise'

Daily Kos: Obamacare 'rate shock' victim changes her mind, calls the law a 'blessing in disguise'

Dianne Barrette, the 57-year-old Florida realtor who was paying $54 a month for a Blue Cross insurance plan that got cancelled quickly became the poster person for the "Obamacare is taking my insurance away!" campaign after CBS News ran her story, and almost just as quickly became the face of debunked Obamacare stories when Fox News' (!!!) Greta Van Susteren poked it full of holes. It's been a useful story for plenty of journalists—Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, and Nancy Metcalf of Consumer Reports—to explore what's really going on with Obamacare, "rate shock," and people losing their junk insurance.

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