On Tues. March 23, 2010 President Obama signed the incredibly controversial healthcare bill in order to guarantee health insurance coverage for over 32 million uninsured Americans.

The bill will touch nearly every American citizen's life, and is accountable for the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s. The topic of government sponsored healthcare has been the subject of debates for the entirety of President Obama’s presence in the Oval Office, and the controversy surrounding it and backlash coming from conservatives could possibly define the upcoming November elections. The newly signed bill will be known as President Obama’s signature accomplishment of his time in the White House.

The new overhaul will eventually extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans and ban insurance company practices that are denying coverage to people with medical problems. The first changes take effect by the end of September while other changes will not kick in until 2014.

President Obama realized that this was an outstanding achievement that was denied to a line of presidents before him. Therefore, President Obama made the massive bill into a law with a grand East Room signing ceremony. He was joined by joyful House and Senate Democrats as well as lesser-known people whose health care struggles have touched the president.  While finally being able to revel in his victory, President Obama said, "With all the punditry, all the lobbying, all the game-playing that passes for governing here in Washington, it's been easy at times to doubt our ability to do such a big thing, such a complicated thing, to wonder if there are limits to what we as a people can still achieve."

However, not all in attendance of the monumental ceremony were as jubilant. Attorneys general from 13 states, including Michigan, filed suit to stop the healthcare overhaul just minutes after the bill was signed, contending that the new law was unconstitutional. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum took the lead in the filing of the lawsuit, joined by others from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Utah, Pennsylvania, Alabama, South Dakota, Louisiana, Idaho, Washington and Colorado. Other GOP attorneys general may join the lawsuit later or sue separately. Citizens may have to wait for the suits to be determined in order to see if they actually receive coverage.