Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All

Re:Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with F... by crooked-v on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:46PM (#22559570)

I see nothing scummy about it. It's a low cost (several billion dollars per year, compared to $3 trillion in tax revenues) way to nationally, permanently reduce the impact of this and all future outbreaks.

If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing right instead of just throwing something out there that will only help in this specific situation.

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Re:Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with F... by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:55PM (#22559672)

I haven't run the numbers on giving every employee 2 weeks of paid sick leave and 3 months of paid medical leave.

But I find it really hard to believe this adds up to only several billion dollars, given there are over 150 million employees in this country.

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Re:Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with F... by crooked-v on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:03PM (#22559766)

So, bump that up to $50 billion a year. What does it matter? The Iraq War cost $157 billion per year with no impact on the day to day lives of US citizens, so we can obviously afford that much without needing to stress about it.

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