[dragonwriter]

> To be fair America has the Veterans Affairs administration, which is socialized medicine, albeit for a small subset of the population, veterans.

It also has TriCare (military & dependents, ~10M), Medicare (Aged/Disabled, 61.2M in 2020), and Medicaid (medically indigent, 68M in 2020). With around 9M in Veteran Health Administration, the US has socialized medicine for nearly 150M people out of the 330M population.

[jdmichal]

Medicare and Medicaid are not exclusive. They call it "dual eligible".

(PDF WARNING) https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Medicare-...

This lists 20% of Medicare and 15% of Medicaid enrolled are dual eligible. So that's somewhere between 10.2 and 12.2 million lower, using your numbers.

(And yes, those numbers are obviously off somewhere, since the two should match. But it's good enough and I'm not sure it's even possible to track down the actual numbers used in the given link.)

[dragonwriter]

> Medicare and Medicaid are not exclusive. They call it "dual eligible".

Good call. Forgot to consider dual eligibles; which drops it closer to 1/3 the population than half with socialized medicine.