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In terms of where it stands, we have to separate the shopping function of the website from the coverage function. what they have been working on is getting the shopping function working. people have a lot of good options and it's going to be really impossible to compare then without the website working. however, once they shop over the web, there's no reason why they can't enroll on the phone. now we can turn to enrollment over the phone. there still are some back-end issues to resolve, but the first step has been taken. >> michael, where are you in the enrollment process? are you still consid...

That's when everything has to be working to satisfy the original mandate. the point is it's still early. in terms of where it stands, we have to separate the shopping function of the website from the coverage function. what they have been working on is getting the shopping function working. people have a lot of good options and it's going to be really impossible to compare then without the website working. however, once they shop over the web, there's no reason why they can't enroll on the phone. now we can turn to enrollment over the phone. there still are some back-end issues to resolve, but...

Can not do anything about, we'll hope those get fixed. what consumers need to focus on is how to enroll in the first place. and there's a big job ahead because a lot of people still really aren't clear how to go about it. >> walk people through it. step one. >> step one is to understand that applying for health insurance now is more like doing your income tax than going to the doctor. >> okay. >> what you need to gather is a lot of financial information. your last year's tax return. if you didn't have one, information about payroll, pay stubs, et cetera. >> and gather all this information befo...

>> reporter: republican critics are now accusing the administration of nixing the window shopping tool because it would have shown americans the full unsubsidized price of insurance plans, causing sticker shock and possibly deterring some from signing up. >> clearly was a political decision to make people see what they were getting for free before they could see what it was going to cost. >> reporter: chow's agency says it believes the documentation of the successful test was a mistake and today, the white house is standing by chow's testimony. >> you believe that it failed miserably? >> again...