WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that the administration’s flawed health-care website needed a couple of hundred fixes when it went online more than a month ago and conceded, “we’re not there yet” in making all needed repairs.
At the same time, she turned aside any suggestion that the system be taken off line until it could be fixed fully. Doing so “wouldn’t delay people’s cancer or diabetes or Parkinson’s” disease, she told the Senate Finance Committee.
Despite the website’s well-chronicled woes, Sebelius said, it has improved dramatically since the administration launched its repair effort. Echoing testimony delivered Monday by another administration official to a different committee, she said it is now able to process nearly 17,000 registrations an hour, with almost no errors.
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