Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

...and politics is a numbers game.

Sure, insurance is big business. But there are a lot of other, bigger businesses lining the GOP's pockets. In going after the ACA they may alienate health insurance and biotech, but they are going to keep enormous corporations with armies of underpaid uninsured workers, like major retailers, and probably gain ground with small business owners (who are numerically superior to big business).

The GOP also has to worry about it's rabid base. You can't help your corporate friends if you've been primaried out of office by some illiterate, mouth-breathing, tea party upstart, so insurance companies may have to take one for the team.