Menendez to Tom Price: I’m ‘Taken Aback’ by Your Claim Immigrants Transmit Leprosy

MENENDEZ: "Can you commit to this committee and the American people today that should you be confirmed you will swiftly and unequivocally debunk false claims to protect the public health?"
PRICE: "What I’ll commit to doing is doing the due diligence that the department is known for and must do to make certain that the factual information is conveyed to —"
MENENDEZ: "And that factual information will be dictated by science, I would hope."
PRICE: "Without a doubt."
MENENDEZ: "Okay, so let me ask you about Medicaid specifically. Let me just say I’m a little taken aback about your answer on the question of immigrants and leprosy. I think the science is pretty well dictated in that regard, too."