I pay $800.00 a month to have excellent coverage on my wife's group plan. I take an extremely small amount of blood pressure medicine and have been turned down for individual plans that would have been slightly cheaper. Moments ago I looked at the Government's Health Care Website. I can get a top of the line 80% plan for $438.00 (we don't qualify for a subsidy this year). with one of the top healthcare providers in our state. As a matter of fact, one of their state of the art hospital is less than 10 minutes away from my home.
Even paying some out of pocket it will be FAR CHEAPER.
I am in all respects an otherwise healthy individual for my age.