Prices wife on HIV quarantine remark: I was just being provocative [View all]
Georgia Rep. Betty Price (R), wife of former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, defended her remark asking if people infected with HIV could be quarantined, insisting she was just being “provocative.”
“I made a provocative and rhetorical comment as part of a free-flowing conversation which has been taken completely out of context,” Price said in a statement published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday. “I do not support a quarantine in this public health challenge and dilemma of undertreated HIV patients.”
Price’s question came last week during a study committee addressing challenges to health care access.
The committee was examining the spread of the HIV virus across the state of Georgia. In a video published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Price can be heard asking a question regarding the surveillance of individuals who come into close contact with patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/356643-prices-wife-on-hiv-quarantine-remark-i-was-just-being-provocative
Taken out of context? That's always the right's excuse when they're called out for saying something stupid.
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