If you still have time under a private insurance contract, if there is ANY medical care you have been considering, especially elective type treatments, do them BEFORE you go on Medicare.
Also, just before you switch over, get dental work done. Make sure you have your prescriptions all stocked up and refilled if possible, and if you have an optical plan, get new glasses and if you need cataract surgery get it done BEFORE you are forced onto Medicare.
These measures will not keep you going forever, but will buy you a couple years reprieve before getting taken to the cleaners by forced government “healthcare”.
We found out the hard way what a rip off Medicare is and their prescription plan with its *donut hole* in Rx coverage is an abomination, and yet you have NO choice.
Too late. We live in New York State where only productive citizens pay through the nose for health care.