Beyond "Fact Check" Minutiae: Two *Lies* on Health Care from Obama and Romney in the "Debate"

Romney: The U.S. for a "long, long time and has produced the best health records in the world."

Actually, the World Health Organization in the year 2000 put the the U.S. at 37 -- though it is number one in the amount of money it spends per capita on health care. 

Obama: "But when Governor Romney says that he’ll replace it with something but can’t detail how it will be in fact replaced, and the reason he set up the system he did in Massachusetts is because there isn’t a better way of dealing with the pre-existing conditions problem."

Of course, the best way to deal with pre-existing conditions would be a truly universal system, like the one Canada has. 

Here you'll find the transcript of "debate" -- and I put "debate" in quotes because it's not a debate for real when the two protagonists are trying to out maneuver each other, yes, but largely colluding together to out maneuver facts they both have a mutual aversion to.