Another benefit of Obama's health care reform: It allows young people without faces, like this 25-year-old construction worker who lost his eyes, lips, nose and eyebrows in a horrific power line accident, to get face transplants:

The new federal health care law helped make the operation possible, by allowing Wiens to get insurance coverage for the expensive drugs he will need lifelong to prevent rejection of his new face.

Wiens had no insurance when he was injured; Medicaid covered about two dozen surgeries until his disability payments put him over the income limit. The new law allowed him to qualify for coverage under his father's plan for the drugs until he turns 26 in May. Then he'll be eligible to receive Medicare, which covers the disabled as well as those over 65.

Here's an unsettling footnote: The man's face transplant surgery was paid for by a millions-dollar hospital grant from the Defense Department—just a quiet reminder that the DOD has a vested interest in tacking brutally maimed and broken people back together.