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