Don't forget evil.

Market forces, supply and demand, simple capitalist ideology.
Trump is above all else an opportunist.

Because he is a debased POS

"Why now?" Because he's afraid he's running out of time to overturn everything the Obama administration accomplished. Because, as a malignant narcissist, his own benefit outranks anything else...anywhere...anytime...anyway.

How can we have so many a-holes in our country that can't see how incredibly evil and self serving these guys are?! The only purposes here can be profit and vengance. Profit because Covid is whipping big money insurance and medical companies. And so this could net them a fortune. And vengance because its an act signed into being by Obama, and our cowardly traitor of a President want to get rid of everything he can which Obama did.

Nancy Pelosi summed it up pretty well last night: “President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty.