Ah yes, Hawaii has a SHIP program too for consulting, and I will be checking with them. Now I even remember seeing their TV commercials.
Funny, but looks like I started a similar thread more than a year ago and completely forgot about it. See it here.
I was talking to my buddy in Thailand recently about local health insurance. The same age as me, I am exactly one month older. He was in my Peace Corps group and unlike me, who spent a few years back in the US, he has never moved away from Thailand, been there ever since the 1980s. Through his wife, he owns a large parcel of land (foreigners can’t own land in Thailand) in the Northeast and has a very nice house. And I mean, a very nice house. Holding Permanent Resident status, he recently retired from the international company he worked at for 30 years – he was the manager of the local area office – and I asked him what he’s arranged about insurance. The answer was nothing. He has been uninsured since leaving the company but does not want to pay for private insurance.
But he does have a rather unique solution. The younger of his two daughters is in university, finishing up pharmacy school. She will be entering public service in the next couple of years as a government pharmacist, and parents of civil servants, even foreign parents, get free healthcare. So he’s hoping nothing major healthwise pops up between now and then.