[wutbrodo]

I had roughly the same plan as you (I'm on a sabbatical). I thought autopay was set up but my second month's payment failed to go through. I was traveling for a few months at the time, and since insurance companies are universally incompetent, they sent me a few letters (and zero emails to the address they had on file) before cancelling my coverage.

The nice part is that, since I'm not not eligible to re enroll on the exchanges, the short term insurance plan I have to buy is MUCH cheaper. For the months of July - December, I'm paying around $350 for a catastrophic plan. If I was working the penalty would probably hit me hard but since I'm on vacation, getting dropped out of the exchange has actually saved me quite a bit of money.