[Cheerio]

What if I don’t sign up and keep my private insurance plan...?

If you get your health ins through an employer it is doubtful they will allow you to keep the same plan when you reach medicare age. If you purchase your health insurance on the open market - -? Depends, but I would think most health insurance plans cease after one reaches age 65 and you are offered a secondary to medicare.

[Free America52]

True story - my mom (78 years old) has two herniated disks. It took over a month to see a specialist, and now she is having to wait until January 6 for surgery. Meanwhile she is in excruciating pain, flat on her back and cannot do anything except take the pain pills they are giving her - Oxycontin. Very sad to see our health system at this point ...