No, I'm genuinely curious about this. It may be more than you have, but is it a crazy unreasonable amount? Are we talking $10K? $100K? $1M? Because the plan you have should have a reasonable out-of-pocket maximum for a serious problem, and it should be far, far below the actual medical bill. For a Bronze Plan, your individual yearly out pocket maximum for a debilitating injury would be $6,350. That's bad news for anyone, but it's a lot better than being stuck with the bill for getting your hip or knee surgically reconstructed, as you problably know better than the rest of us.
The reason I'm pushing this is because every time somebody has become the "Joe the Plumber" face of getting screwed by the ACA in the national news, it has turned out that they actually had very good (often better than before the ACA!) options available to them. The only exception to that is people who fall below the income level for the normal ACA markets and who should have been covered by Medicaid but aren't because their states decided to screw them in order to score political points. It sounds like you're probably one of those people.