GOP Senate nominee: $600 virus unemployment benefit is 'way too much'

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. But if they don't have jobs they don't have health insurance either.

I should think that most people would rather work for a little less cash upfront if they can have health insurance (especially during a pandemic), which they probably wouldn't be able to afford at all even with that extra $600. Many jobs have other benefits as well that they won't get if they don't go back to work.

Anyhow, the other big reason for the $600 payments, which is just as important as the benefit to individuals, is to get desperately-needed money into the economy. If people don't get that money they can't spend it on rent, food, consumer goods, etc., and the recession will get even worse.