And this is exactly what we don't have right now. Real scholarship is being dismissed, and no one cares that those dismissing are stakeholders in the dismissal. Case in point: the EU commissioned a study on piracy.
The results were to be expected, and were promptly dismissed because it didn't fit the lobbyists narrative. Swept under the rug, hopefully no one would have noticed.
Study after study gets dismissed. The ones the lobbyists happen to agree with are the ones prominently displayed as truth. Fuck the rest. Real world, working examples? Bullshit. You mentioned healthcare, gun control, but there is also net neutrality, country occupations/interventions and the tpp among many other issues right now which this exact manoeuvre is executed on
Actual bonafide research can go fuck itself because it's all about money for the few. And it's sad really.