What is the explanation for Tom Price, a physician and current Secretary of Health and Human Services, taking private charter flights costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars? Keep in mind that when Price was a conservative congressman from Georgia, he would have railed against such fiscal profligacy. Is it hubris? Entitlement? Or, do folks who ascend to positions of power simply rationalize that such excesses are absolute necessities for getting the job done? By the time this piece is posted, Dr. Price, an orthopedic surgeon, may have been surgically excised from the government without anesthesia. While his behavior is not quite Watergate, it was wrong. And, if it was not wrong, it demonstrated impaired judgment. And, if was not simply a repeated exercise of misjudgments, then it exhibited bad optics. And, if it somehow passed the optics test, it was just dumb. Would Price have been able to explain these expensive charter flights to average folks, half
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