meet the october deadline. >> i am as frustrated as anybody with the flawed launch of healthcare.gov. so let me say to the americans, you deserve better. >> and in fact, she was noticeably absent last month when president obama said they had met the march 31st goal of 7 million signups, but she did have a chance yesterday to tell the senate finance committee that total enrollment has reached 7.5 million. >> 4,000 additional americans have signed up, and we expect that number to grow. >> and let's bring in dafna l d lindser and amanda terkel from "huffington post." and what do you make to the timing of all of this, dafna? >> well, it is ideal time the ing and she said that there were