My husband is a US citizen living in the UK, moving back to the US in a couple of weeks. He does not have employment in the US to provide healthcare. He will be returning to Maryland, if that matters.
Our medium-term solution to healthcare is probably going to be the marketplace, but my understanding is that he can't begin this process until he is resident in the US. I'd rather we didn't have a gap of being uninsured but I can't find any options to avoid this through googling.
The one-way travel insurance I've found relies on him being 'resident' in another country, or finishes at the country of final destination, or doesn't cover US citizens in the US. The expat travel insurance I've found doesn't cover US citizens in the US.
Have any other US citizens who are returning (permanently, not visiting) from abroad managed to arrange health insurance in advance of arrival, and if so, what are the options? We'd be okay with something that only lasted, say, 2 weeks or more, as a stopgap until he can work out how to navigate obamacare. We're just looking something to guard against huge, net worth destroying catastrophes, really.
He was under 26, and on his parents insurance, when he last lived in the US -- so neither of us have any experience of navigating health insurance.