That is less than we currently pay in premiums alone (11.8%). If we dare go beyond the annual physical, it can go up to 20%.

Sad thing is that the whole operation got derailed by what should have been a sideshow, namely the sign-up process. Vermont used the same asshats which developed the federal website and got the same results. Unfortunately, they had also concentrated all marketing efforts on the technological aspects and when the site fell over, the failure got projected on the entire single payer concept.