Ask HN: Need immediate medical help and uninsured, please advise!

I've been unemployed for the last 3 years (was a software engineer before that). Am pretty close to broke now and over the past couple of weeks have come to believe that I have a very serious medical condition that needs immediate treatment, what should I do? This may or may not be an ER thing, but I just don't know what to do -- I don't have the $ for an ER or doctor visit. I live in California and have been on HN for like 6-7 years, but just created this profile to hide my identity.