We just dropped my health insurance from Humanna. It was going to cost my wife and I some $21,000 per year plus co-pays. We are both in our in our early 50's and have reasonable expenses of about 3500 per year.
Holy Toledo! You gotta SHOP, man! Get an agent to do it for you, and he'll do it gladly.
I've always been "sensitive" to health care insurance, because I have never had or been involved in any sort of company plan - it's always been strictly 'out of pocket'.
We're both 58, and would be paying around 9000 bucks had we not downgraded to a higher deductible plan earlier this year. Somebody's hosing you, bigtime from what I read.