President Obama responded at the first debate, to Mitt Romney’s criticism that “Obamacare” was passed without Republican support, compared to his having worked on a bipartisan manner in Massachusetts
“Gov. Romney says this has to be done on a bipartisan basis. This was a bipartisan idea — in fact, a Republican idea,” Obama said. “Gov. Romney at the beginning of the debate said, what we did in Massachusetts could be a model for the nation. I agree — the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given advice to Republicans in Congress on how to cooperate. We used the same advisers, and they say it is the same plan.”
Obama later added: “Gov. Romney says we should replace it, ‘I’m going to repeal it,’ we can replace it with something. But the problem is, he hasn’t described what exactly he would replace it with, other than to say we’ll leave it to the states.”
