WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said this morning 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.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and the panel’s chairman, said Sebelius must be “candidly, fully totally” forthcoming with Congress about the repair effort, “so that we don’t wake up at the end of November and find out we’re not there yet.”

He referred to the administration’s goal for completing the repairs.

Despite the web site’s well-chronicled woes, Sebelius said it has improved dramatically since the administration launched its repair effort. She said it is now able to process nearly 17,000 registrations an hour, with almost no errors.

She said a punchlist drawn up by Jeff Zients, who was brought in to oversee repairs, contained “a couple of hundred functional fixes that have been identified and they are in priority grouping.”

While progress has been made, “we’re not where we need to be. It’s a pretty aggressive schedule,” she said.