I have no insurance and I need heart surgery

Hi I'm a 24 year old US citizen thats been loving in India for the last 15 years. I was born with a congenital heart defect that was corrected at 3 days of life and on my follow up checks, I was told to stop coming as I'm fine. Last year I developed some symptoms when stressed that I attributed to anxiety. I worked with a cardiologist in a prestigious hospital earlier this year and mentioned my history to him and long story short, I was told that I need surgery. Now, the surgery can only be done in the US since the heart valve required is no where else. My dad works in India and the health insurance here can't cover anything either way. I spoke to the financial department and they told me that ObamaCare qualifies me for a variety of insurance programs and then stopped responding to my emails. I looked into ObamaCare and I don't know what kind of personal health insurance I can get. I have a pre-existing congenital disease and the surgery is estimated to be around 350k USD. This is excluding follow up appointments and complications. Can someone please help me navigate through this? I don't know anything or how to go about this TLDR: US citizen with no previous health insurance; needs an individual/marketplace insurance to expensive heart surgery

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