IV. Intro: Will Obamacare succeed? A famous Greek physician named Herophilos once said: "When health is absent, wisdom cannot be revealed, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied. » One of the most crucial issues facing Americans today is the dramatic increase in health problems. Serious health problems like obesity can create other illnesses like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one-third (35.7%) of American adults are obese, and in 2008 their combined medical bills were estimated at $147 billion; of these 35.7% of Americans, approximately 15.4% do not have health insurance. One of the leading causes of the number of uninsured Americans is the shockingly high cost of health care. Compared to the rest of the developed world, the United States has significantly higher health care costs as a percentage of GDP or per capita. The Organization for Economic Society and Development (OECD) reports that health care costs in other countries average $3,200 per person and nearly $8,200 per person in the United States. In response to this recurring problem, on March 23, 2010, the Senate approved President Barrack Obama's bill entitled, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The goal of this bill was to reduce medical costs while providing every American with access to health insurance. For the Obama administration to effectively improve health care, it must take into account all other government policies that will be directly and indirectly affected, whether positively or negatively. As with any new law, there are those who...... middle of paper ...... some of the opposition comes from the Southern states. The second problem leads to an interesting legal dilemma in this case: the challenges he received in the courtroom. This subject being very controversial at the time of its initial proposal, various legal questions had to be answered. The main question that needed to be answered was the new constitutional law. Mike Patton explains: “The Supreme Court has ruled that as long as the penalty for noncompliance is considered a tax, Obamacare does not violate the Constitution. Indeed, Article I, Section Eight, of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to collect taxes for the “general welfare of the nation.” Obamacare therefore became the law of the land. Coincidentally, this is the same position the Supreme Court took in 1937 when ruling on the constitutionality of Social Security..”