Americans get extra week to sign up for Obamacare as website improves

American citizens hoping to join health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform legislation can have a further eight days to do so for protection to begin January 1, 2014, officers said on Friday. Officials on the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Services and products said they had no plans to extend the final word time limit of March 31, 2014, the date when people without insurance should sign up in a plan or face a tax penalty. That decision reflects, partly, optimism that the web site will proceed to strengthen: the website will quickly be capable of handle 50,000 simultaneous customers, said Jeffrey Zients, the Obama administration's HealthCare.gov adviser, and 800,000 individuals per day, largely because of the more than 300 software and other fixes that technology teams have made to the website online over the last seven weeks.