Following a host of issues affecting the launch of the online insurance platform, the US government has announced its decision to extend the deadline for Americans to sign up for coverage next year until March, 2014 from January earlier.

Opponents are calling for the platform under the Affordable Care Act to be paused if not scrapped altogether. However, the insurance companies have insisted that the platform can be fixed in time before the coverage begins. The government had earlier said that the users in the country will have to register until 15 December, 2013 for coverage that’s starts on 1 January, 2013.

But the deadline has been extended after since White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the authorities will address disconnect the implementation of the law. The newly launched HealthCare. gov government’s online marketplace for the health-insurance program went under maintenance after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) addressed its issues.

Under the new healthcare reform law, the government has set up 51 health insurance exchange in the country to allow people to purchase policies. The 2010 Affordable Care Act requires subsidies to help several uninsured Americans secure healthcare.