Fact Checking Romney, Obama in First Debat.

 Culled from ABC news.
Here’s a look at some of the facts thrown around during the debate. We found some facts, some fictions, some not quite facts and some mostly fictions.

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Did Romney work across the aisle for his health care plan in Massachusetts?
Michael Widmer, from Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation (non-partisan group) says both the Massachusetts legislature and Romney DID come together to get everyone in the state insured. They had the same goal and were successful. Yes, Romney put out the idea, but the legislature helped to craft the plan.
Is Obamacare based on Romney’s plan?
Romney worked with the legislature yes, but he spearheaded two parts of it that are essential to the president’s plan: the individual mandate and the health care exchanges.
The administration did use Romney’s advisors as the president said. MIT’s Jonathan Gruber is the biggest name who worked with both.
Health care was a rare exception where he worked with the legislature in his state, according to  Widmer.
Widmer says the legislature was “frustrated usually” with Romney because he wanted to govern like a “CEO” and “didn’t pay heed to the legislature and they resented that.”
He says it was very different than one of his predecessors and now a big support, Bill Weld who did work with Democrats in the state.
Romney was also bragging about Massachusetts being number one in education. Widmer says those reforms actually took place ten years before in 1993 under Weld.