United States President Barack Obama is staging a new push to promote the benefits of his signature healthcare reform.
The move on Tuesday comes two months after a series of technical difficulties affected the launch of the healthcare website for Americans to sign up for affordable insurance, Radio New Zealand's correspondent in Washington reports.
Mr Obama is launching a public relations fight-back, with the opening message that, despite initial teething troubles, the website is now operational.
"We know the demand is there and we know that the product on these marketplaces is good," he said.
Over the coming weeks, the White House hopes to demonstrate that the healthcare marketplaces will provide the 41 million uninsured and the under-insured with a sense of certainty that they will receive adequate medical care if they sign up to receive coverage which starts in the new year.
Barack Obama recounted stories of Americans who had already benefited under the sweeping 2010 reform legislation - but said millions more remained to be helped, the BBC reports.
"The bottom line is this law is working," he said. "We're not repealing it as long as I'm president."
Mr Obama said the new healthcare website, which sells medical insurance, is now working at acceptable levels after a glitch-plagued 1 October launch.
He also sought to remind the American public of the law's most popular provisions: Under the law, young people can remain covered under their parents' health insurance policies until age 26, and beginning next year insurers will no longer be able to deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.
The act aims to provide health coverage to some 15% of US citizens who lack it and to slow the growth of medical costs.
