Lawmaker: Could Quarantine Fix 'Frightening' HIV Situation?

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) stands with his wife Betty Price before being sworn in as the new Health and Human Services Secretary, on February 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.  (Photo credit: Getty Images)

George State Rep. Betty Price admitted during a meeting Tuesday that her "thinking sometimes goes in strange directions," Project Q reports. That may have been an understatement.  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Price was serving on a committee tasked with finding and solving the barriers keeping people from accessing healthcare when she asked an executive with the Georgia Department of Public Health about potentially "quarantining" people with HIV.

 "I don’t want to say the quarantine word, but I guess I just said it," Price said. "I would guess that public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread. What would you advise or are there any methods legally that we could do that would curtail the spread?"

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