In the LA Times today:

It sure was nice seeing representatives of the insurance industry sitting down with the president and declaring that they know the healthcare system needs to be overhauled and that they definitely want to be part of the solution. Just one small thing: Does anybody trust them? I spoke last week with a variety of healthcare experts, and not one could give me a "yes" to that question. "Some of these people in the insurance industry are friends of mine," said Alain Enthoven, a professor emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who served as a consultant to the Carter administration on healthcare issues. "I like them personally. But I don't trust them."
So let's sum this up shall we? Obama met with health care representatives and came out of the meeting claiming that the health care providers had made specific promises leading to $2 trillion dollars in savings (and even then, as I commented at the time, the claims sounded spurious, since it was actually decreases in future increases in health care costs), and subsequent to that the same health care representatives denied they'd ever made such promises and had corroborating evidence to that effect. And now journalist David Lazarus asks us whether we trust the health care providers??? Can we trust a single word that comes out of Obama's mouth? How about that question? Lazarus's column nowhere even mentions that Obama's claims about the meeting have already been repudiated.
Second point worth noting: both in the quoted section and elsewhere in the article, Lazarus makes comparisons to the Carter administration, even saying "here we go again". When even fawning LA Times journalists are making comparisons between Obama and Carter, you know we're in trouble. Still, as I asked before, since four years of Carter brought 8 years of Reagan, will 4 years of uber-Carter bring 8 years of Uber-Reagan?
[Update] Related story How To Sniff Out A Liar.
Men tend to lie to make themselves look better.
Yep, that seems to about cover it.