• Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and its success in his home state of Kentucky.
• Only six people were able to enroll for health insurance through the ObamaCare website on the first day, according to documents released Thursday by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. Obama administration officials have said that early enrollment numbers would be very low.
• Experts from Google and other prominent tech companies are joining a so-called tech surge to fix the struggling HealthCare.gov website. The agency overseeing the Obamacare site announced the additions Thursday, after the site had crashed for over 36 hours.
• President Barack Obama’s closest advisers secretly considered replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the 2012 ticket, according to the New York Times.
• A third of the abortion clinics in Texas can no longer perform the procedure starting Friday after a federal appeals court allowed most of the state’s new abortion restrictions to take effect, overturning a district judge’s ruling that the provision violated the Constitution.
• The parents of a boy suffering from severe seizures have filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona to ensure that their son will have access to medicinal cannabis oil without the risk of prosecution.
