Obamacare is a health care program developed in the United States and introduced to Congress in September 2009 with the goal of creating affordable health insurance for all or most Americans. A primary goal was to reduce health care spending in the United States and expand the availability of private and public health insurance. Although it does not control individuals' health care, it provides many protections to U.S. citizens, including: allowing adults to remain covered by their health insurance plan until the age of twenty-six , prevent insurance agencies from committing wrongdoing and releasing sick customers, and removing limits that include annual and lifetime options ( Obamacare Facts ). In addition to requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, it also provides essential health benefits such as the right to emergency care, hospitalization, counseling and screening for potential illnesses (Obamacare Facts). Obamacare also introduces new taxes designed to subsidize costs for middle-class Americans and small businesses, coupled with an employer mandate to provide health insurance to all full-time employees by 2015. has created a strong sense of dissatisfaction among a plethora of interest groups and political parties (Obamacare Facts). Many felt that the push for Obamacare was a push toward a more socialized America in terms of medicine and corporate health care (Faria, 2012). If individuals or businesses decide not to comply with the law, heavy fines must be imposed by the federal government. In turn, this caused a strong sense of "usurpation of liberty" and "gradual loss of liberty" that Americans had... middle of paper... and yet they remained minimal (McAuliff, 2013). ). The Obama administration knew it would have to work hard to regain public trust, so the changes that followed also pleased Democrats, with one including more restrictions on income variation for people on subsidies and the possibility of refusing the automatic registration of employers in the Obamacare plan (Republican ideas included in the president's proposal). In essence, President Obama may have taken his leadership role for granted. The Obamacare legislation has generated much opposition and remains unfavorable to Republicans and, at best, “lukewarm” to Democrats. It failed to gather supporters and until today, Obamacare appears to be more of an aspiration than a realistic plan to benefit and improve the US healthcare system (Kernell et al., 2014, p..304).