Republicans know this to be the case, but their corporate benefactors abhor increased regulation and oversight--including, not only the big Wall Street banks we so recently bailed out, Big Energy--exemplified by the Koch Brothers, and, of course, the Health Insurance industry--who want the mandate of 'Obamacare,' but not the consumer protections, and definitely not a mandated medical loss ratio eating into their profits. What the health insurance companies want is to be able to sell their catastrophic policies 'across state lines' with little or no regulation--but very big profits. All these corporate special interests donated heavily to Republicans for the mid-term elections and are expecting more than 'good government' in return.
The Republicans truly have no shame and very little worry they will be called out by the media for their lies. We must keep calling them out and demanding the media do likewise.