That's a decent argument, Keedy. But unfortunately, the question "prove to me it'll work?" has no real answer. The entire system won't be known until well after the reform legislation is passed. As has been said, the details will be created well after the fact by career bureaucrats. How can one "test" something that doesn't exist?

But we know quite well what doesn't work. Our current healthcare system costs roughly twice as much as those of the other developed countries and still leaves 40-50 million people without healthcare insurance. That cost is growing at a rate that will require that money be spent on healthcare in the future that otherwise should be invested in growing our economy. The cost is high now, and will be impossible to afford in a decade. Having said all that, our system has produced health of the population that ranks around 25th among the developed countries, even though it costs twice as much! We know what doesn't work.

So, as much as we have hesitancy, we're going to be faced with trusting both our elected government as well as the career bureaucrats who will actually design the details of the reforms of our healthcare system. Unless our Congress chooses to do nothing--which will "break" our economy in ten years or so and doesn't appear to be either a political or economic alternative--we will have to have some trust without a "proof" that it works.