GOP State Lawmaker Suggests Quarantining People With HIV, Says It's 'Almost Frightening' How Many...

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Source: The New Civil Rights Movement




GOP State Lawmaker Suggests Quarantining People With HIV, Says It's 'Almost Frightening' How Many Are Living Longer

by David Badash
October 20, 2017 11:44 AM

Republican State Rep. Is Also a Medical Doctor and Wife of Former Trump Administration HHS Secretary Tom Price

Georgia Republican state Representative Betty Price on Tuesday inquired about quarantining people living with HIV, citing what she "guessed" are the high costs to the government for medical services and care. In addition to suggesting the possibility of quarantining people living with HIV, she also inquired about surveilling their sexual partners and tracking their contacts. And she appeared to imply that because of medical advances, people are living longer with HIV/AIDS than in decades past, and therefore are posing a greater risk because "in the past they died more readily."

The presumption that people living with HIV/AIDS are posing a risk to the general population in general or because they are living longer is both false and extraordinarily offensive.

Rep. Betty Price, who is also a medical doctor and happens to be the wife of former Trump administration Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, made her disturbing remarks at a House committee meeting designed to improve state residents' access to health care, as Regina Willis at Project Q Atlanta reported Friday.

"My thinking sometimes goes in strange directions," Rep. Price admitted, "but before you proceed if you wouldn’t mind commenting on the surveillance of partners, tracking of contacts, that sort of thing. What are we legally able to do?" she asked Dr. Pascale Wortley, direct

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[ck4829]

1. Rude to call this 'fascism' though, right?

That's what we need to be concerned about.

[dembotoz]

2. well hell if trump and the gop is planning to send us all to camps they gotta start somewhere

you could get out of the deportation camps by obviously being deported....the solution presents with these camps sound more of a final solution

[Chemisse]

3. Leave it to a Republican to say that HIV advances are a bad thing. n/t

[rolypolychloe]

4. or make them wear a scarlet letter A on their sweaters

[bronxiteforever]

5. Logans Run for hiv positive people

I swear these people are the worst, can’t cant can’t stand them.

[IronLionZion]

6. People living longer is a problem for some Republicans

their health care plan has always been die quickly. Doctor and spouse of HHS secretary feels people are not dying fast enough.

So it starts with quarantining HIV patients. Has anyone told her that many HIV patients are straight and white? Intravenous drug users for example. Or conservative politicians who hire prostitutes.

[niyad]

7. I have exceeded my outrage quota for today, but. . . .FUCK YOU, betty price,

you disgraceful excuse for a human being. FUCK YOU!!!

[dbackjon]

8. Take her Medical license

[dbackjon]

9. FUCK YOU Betty. You are scum

And again, all of you that didn't vote for Clinton - fuck you to hell.

[Dopers_Greed]

10. Isn't their "living longer" a good thing?

Living longer = under treatment, which lowers their viral counts, and makes them less likely to transmit the virus to others

[Sunlei]

11. HIV+, Republican voters especially in Georgia, please contemplate before you vote again for her.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Republican prudes always trying to get in your bedroom

and I don't have any idea how they think that's prudish

I find Republican Voyeurs kinky

[Yavin4]

13. There is NO END to Republican hatefulness and crazy

None.

[Initech]

22. Nope. They have zero redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[Liberalagogo]

14. How about we just quarantine

the cancer that is the GOP?

Better yet, just excise it.

Here's her credentials:
"Price graduated from Cocoa Beach High School in Cocoa Beach, Florida then earned her bachelor of arts from Pomona College and her Doctor of Medicine from McGill University. She worked as an anesthesiologist."

Fuck her.

[Metro135]

15. REPUBLICAN equals ASSHOLE

No exceptions

[BigDemVoter]

16. I dare not write what I think of her, or I will at the very least get it hidden, and it might get me

banned.

[rickford66]

17. Mrs. Mengele I presume ?

[Paladin]

18. Sick bitch. (nt)

[YOHABLO]

19. Yeah Betty, We're living long enough to spit on your grave. Be gone you heartless bitch.

[Luciferous]

20. I think we should quarantine Republican assholes instead!!!

[dalton99a]

21. The sadistic cruelty of Republican M.D.s in public office is off the chart.

They are simply demonic.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Her medical license should be suspended. nt

[mwooldri]

24. Maybe people who voted Republican should be quarantined.

After all, the cost to the country of Republican party policies is huge.