President Barack Hussein Obama Jr is currently the President of the United States of America and was born on August 4, 1961 to his mother (Ann Dunham) and father (Barack Obama Sr.). President Obama was raised by his grandparents when he was 10 years old in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama's mother and father were married on February 2, 1961 and had Obama 6 months later. President Obama did not have a father figure in his life because his mother had moved to a different place and Obama Sr. stayed in Hawaii and then moved a year later to go there. Massachusetts, when Obama was a baby, to follow his dreams and get his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Obama Sr and Ann Dunham had divorced when Obama Jr was 2 years old in March 1964. 1995 Obama Sr returned to Kenya. 1995 Dunham married an Indonesian East West Center student named Lolo Soetoro. A year later, Obama's family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where his half-sister Maya Soetoro was born. His mother was afraid for Obama's safety and for his education, so when he turned 10, his mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. While living with his grandparents, Obama was enrolled in the Estemed Poncho Academy where he played baseball. and graduated from college with honors in 1979. Obama was one of three black people at his school, so he was aware of the racism that being African-American meant. He described how he learned to deviate from himself because he was more of a single race. I started to notice that there was no one like me in the Sears and Roebuck Christmas catalog...and that Santa Claus was a white man," he said. "I went to the toilet and stood in front of the mirror with all my senses and all my limbs. seemingly intact, looking like I had always looked, and I wondered if some...... middle of paper ...... Insurance programs, rights, protections, laws and more . (HealthCare.Gov). In the other half of Obama's first term, Obama experienced many successes and many challenges. One of his successes was signing his health care reform plan. Known as the Affordable Care Act in March 2012. Obama's plan aims to strengthen consumer rights, provide affordable insurance coverage, and increase access to medical care. Obamacare adds to the nation's excessive budget and could violate the Constitution by requiring individuals to obtain insurance. Obama's job worked hard to help the country through everything he did. Obama made headlines in 2010 when a mandate included in his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, allowing other important elements of the law to remain intact. This law includes free medical examination of many citizens..