You can also consider snow birding in Spain. No health insurance needed but you will have to pay out of pocket for ANY service or treatment. Their schedule of costs is comparable to Canada's so you will get most of it back from your province when you submit the bills and it is not expensive to begin with. I would get a repatriation policy though.
The other thing you can do is get a non US extended health care travel plan. It is quite a bit cheaper if you guarantee you won't set foot in the US.
Costa del sol in Spain is an excellent snow bird destination. We'll continue to winter in the US until we retire but will switch to Spain at 60 when we retire.