From the article:
In fact, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell contacted the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, PGA, and NASCAR directly in 2013, demanding that they play no role in helping inform the public about health care benefits. Others on the right threatened to retaliate against leagues that partnered with the government on any kind of public-information campaigns.
What?? Republicans are evil.
Remember when Trump complained that toilets had to be flushed "10, 15 times"?