Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. This control may be either direct, exercised through popular collectives such as workers' councils, or indirect, exercised on behalf of the people by the state. As an economic system, socialism is often characterized by state or community ownership of the means of production.

I will explain later along with excerpts from her testimony in front of the Senate in 1993. Before anyone gets the wrong idea... I am not calling Senator Clinton a Marxist Socialist. I am just creating the foundation for explaining how socialized medicine will not work in our country.