They aren’t. See Howell Raines’s Oct. 2008 article in Conde Nast’s “Portfolio”, which foretold the passage of a *national* healthcare law on a handshake deal at the top of both parties. Boehner has his hands dirty all the way up to his armpits.
More to my last, the Chamber, Business Roundtable, and business generally, all want employee healthcare to go away — permanently, and the Dems to get the blame. Some people think they threw the 2008 and even the 2012 elections, to make sure the ‘Rats got it done.