The PPACA was never about health care, neither is managed care. They are both control and profit...and control and profit are only increased through rationing.

All the pro-Ocare folk I know are just beginning to get it and that is only because the unthinkable (for them at least) is that it is affecting them. Isn't it astounding that so many otherwise intelligent people actually thought life would go on as usual?

When I transitioned from Company insurance to Medicare, Social Security put in an incorrect start date. It took 4 months of phone calls to get coverage started 2 months before it had been incorrectly set up, even though they were deducting premiums from my SS. After coverage started, I was notified I would be penalized for 13 months without Pharmacy coverage. The appeal process is through a contractor, Maximus, INC, For months they just sent the same paperwork over and over, 6 times, each time on a shorter response time frame to complete or the appeal would be automatically denied. After recieving the request Christmas eve, to be completed, I contacted both Senators, and Congressman Raúl Grijalva. From Grijalva office I got a number of forms to help me with 'my immigration problem.' Senator Flake's office did not respond, Senator McCain's office responded and requested copies of paperwork which I provided. Meanwhile I continued to get the same requests for paperwork from Maximus. In March I was notified That they determined only four months penalty applied and although a greater penalty had been deducted from my social security, there was 'no vehicle available to refund the overage.' They claimed they could find no record of me appealing the Medicare start date. Those records should have been in the Phoenix office where they admitted their original mistake on the start date.
At the end of 2015 my medicare carrier left the state and I had to sign up with a new carrier. At the end of of December, I got a coupon book to send in $1.40 a month on my penalty. Apparently that penalty is supposed to follow me the rest of my life. At $1.40 a month, they have already deducted the next 3+ years. And I am back to the appeal process.

I pine for the happy day
O'Powercare will go away.

Anyone know if there is a US insurance company that sells policies that pay for (non-emergency) treatment overseas in a lower cost country like Panama or Thailand?

I have found alternative health care using cash and doing preventive measures to be cost efficient. Of course I haven't even had a cold in over 20 years...a testament to prevention.
My obobo carless weapon, however is the good ole VA in which I only have a yearly check up...wouldn't dream about bothering them about much more than that.
I still can't find a plan or organization that would help if I broke a leg or somethin...Most are too expensive for what I might need. until then I best watch where I walk...

All the more reason to reject more government involvement in health care. There are concierge doctor plans that are low cost, providing all routine and preventive care for a low monthly premium. There are doctors who offer extremely low prescription costs, essentially passing along drugs at the price they pay. Combined with a liberal health savings account and a critical illness/emergency insurance, the costs for most families could be a lot lower.

When I was shoping for health insurance, one agent told me he has many customers who buy non-compliant plans and pay the penalty. They don't necessarily by a hodgepodge of plans. They just buy one policy that does not have features required by PPACA such as unlimited max payout, mental health, etc.