I blame oxytocin.

I presume it was the threat to send subsidies to citizens instead of insurance companies that got them to blink.

To quote Kathleen Hanna
"Get off the internet
I'll meet you in the street
Get off the internet
Destroy the right wing".

U.S. is building them a facility for the training at the base.

Oxytocin. Our love chemical pits against the out-groups.

Yup. Just waiting to hear that Congress has to open up grant bidding to private industry.