1. Despite President Obama's repeated pledge that people can keep their health care plans if they like them, an independent analysis says Obamacare could force as many as 3.7 million Medicare recipients to switch prescription drug plans whether they like it or not.

The Associated Press reported that Avalere Health, a leading private research firm, whose president was a heath care budget analyst in the Clinton White House, found that Obamacare will eliminate many prescription drug plans, which would cause changes in premiums and copayments.

Bonnie Washington, a senior analyst with Avalere, said "Those…who have to change plans could experience some disruption and inconvenience."

Leslie Norwalk, a former Medicare administrator, agreed. "If you're in a plan that you like and you have to change it, it will be disruptive," she said.

But Jonathan Blum, the Obama Administration's deputy administrator for Medicare, dismissed Avalere's concerns. "Anybody who is producing that kind of analysis is simply guessing," he said.

Washington countered that the Avalere study was based on Medicare's own specifications and Blum was unable to produce any figures of his own.

2. Two separate reports on a secret conference of liberal leaders reveal that Democrats are in retreat on Obamacare.

Politico's Ben Smith writes that multiple polls and focus groups have found Obamacare so unpopular, liberals were urged to abandon claims it will lessen health care costs and reduce the deficit. Instead, it was recommended that Democrats promise to try to "improve it."

The confidential presentation acknowledged the failure of the liberal hope that Obamacare would grow more popular after its passage. Instead, opposition to the new law has become more intense and that many Democratic constituencies "have not been won over by the plan."

Politico was able to obtain an actual copy of the Power Point presentation organized by FamiliesUSA.

Among the other liberal groups participating in the conference were the AARP, AFL-CIO, SEIU, MoveOn.org, and LaRaza.

In a separate report on the meeting, Byron York of the Washington Examiner says the liberal pollsters found a "challenging environment," a euphemism for a "disaster in the making."

York writes, "Voters simply aren't buying the Democratic case that health care reform will insure more than 30 million currently uninsured people and save money at the same time. And when they think about their own health care, people worry that reform will mean less, not more, availability of care, and at a higher cost."