Online insurance markets have been flooded with new consumers today in the first day of a six-month open-enrollment period for President Obama's new Obamacare healthcare plan. New consumers have to start at the official federal site, Healthcare.gov, where they can get enrolled.

According to newschannel10.com, federal and state officials were working to solve the technical glitches stemming from the high traffic. Health and Human Services said that more than 1 million people went to healthcare.gov in the last 24 hours.

Most of the health insurance plans, which are more geared towards making healthcare more affordable for lower income people, will be starting on Jan. 1.

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep earlier this week, Obama talked about the Affordable Care Act.

"We're not going to delay the Affordable Care Act," he said. "There are millions of Americans right now who do not have health insurance. And they are finally, after decades, going to be in a position where they can get affordable health care, just like everybody else. And that means that their families, their kids, themselves - they've got the basic security that you and I enjoy."

The Affordable Care Act has been the topic of endless debate in recent years after Obama signed it over in 2010. Republicans have searched for reasons to oppose it and many of the concerns have created a negative perception.

"The Republicans have made the debate about Obamacare a debate about them and their tactics and their wanting to repeal it totally," Democrat Geoff Garin said to NPR. "rather than a debate about Democrats or whether Obamacare is a good or a bad thing."