Romney made a point of contrasting the fiscal record of President Barack Obama with his own record as governor of Massachusetts. We wondered whether that accurately reflected Romney’s fiscal record in the Bay State. ... We turned to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, an independent group that studies fiscal policy in the state.

As of March 19, 127 communities and regional school districts statewide had taken steps to adopt the law or to use traditional collective bargaining to achieve savings in their insurance costs, according to a report by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

"The reason all of the other communities are seeing these costs go down is because they've adopted municipal health reform and in doing that they now have the authority to renegotiate the design of health insurance plans outside of collective bargaining," said Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation analyst Carolyn Ryan.