Ah, the old "I was just trying to be edgy" defense. Betty Price, the wife of former HHS Secretary Tom Price, is defending her comment about quarantining people with HIV as an attempt to be provocative about a public health crisis. [...] "I made a provocative and rhetorical comment as part of a free-flowing conversation which has been taken completely out of context." she said in a statement to the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Saturday. In that aforementioned free-flowing conversation, Price had mentioned "quarantine" and noted how Americans with HIV are not dying as "readily" as they once did. “It seems to me it’s almost frightening the number of people who are living that are potentially carriers, well not carriers, with the potential to spread, whereas in the past they died more readily and at that point they are not posing a risk.