Are people too stupid to suggest the obvious?

All screening and all care for Coronavirus ought to be fully paid for and jobs of the sick need to be guaranteed by the federal government as necessary public health measures to ensure nobody sick and contagious fails to seek testing or care for fear of the costs or keeps going to work for fear of job loss.

Shouldn't the Democrats be calling for this?

Well, whaddayaknow?

Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan For Swift Federal Action On Coronavirus

She wants free tests and treatment, and paid leave for patients and caregivers.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday will lay out a detailed plan for swift federal action to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

The proposed initiative, which Warren’s presidential campaign shared with HuffPost on Sunday evening, is not another item on Warren’s agenda for what she would do if she becomes president. 

It is, instead, a list of steps that she would like to see Congress and President Donald Trump take right now, in order to contain the outbreak, to help those affected by it, and to stop the economy from falling into a recession.

Key actions would include making tests and treatments free to anybody who needs them, providing paid leave to people who must miss work or care for relatives, and propping up the economy with about $400 billion in new government spending.