Parveen Vora

Ken Warner and Parveen Vora are in their mid-50s and live in Manchester, Connecticut.

They're self-employed and use the ACA for health coverage.

Last year, they had to drain one of their two small retirement accounts.

To pay for the hip surgery and the eye surgery and the roof went.

We needed a new roof and a new boiler in the same year of the surgery.

Now they're wondering how they can pay for surgery on Vora's other eye and Warner's other hip and eyeing the retirement account that's left.

They say they feel stuck in a broken system, with healthcare premiums and out-of-pocket costs only getting more expensive each year.

Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.

To pay for the hip surgery and the eye surgery and the roof went.

And this is supposed to be meant for our 60s or 70s or 80s.