Critics of the Affordable Care Act keep saying health care reform will kill people. Perhaps they should talk to Dallas Wiens.Wiens, 25, lost most of his face in a freak work accident. Earlier this week, doctors in Boston performed an experimental face transplant. The Defense Department and the hospital underwrote the surgery. (The Pentagon hopes the know-how can someday help wounded soldiers.) But Wiens will depend on expensive immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of his life.The Affordable Care Act will allow Wiens to pay for those drugs. For now, it allows him to enroll in his...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/25/ok_let039s_talk_about_death_panels_252701.html
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