in 2017 with price now health and human services secretary, it seems he's fully on board with what he was once strongly against. private jets, yes, please. and we're not talking just one flight on board a private plane but perhaps as many as 24 private jet flights since may. that's a hefty price tag for taxpayers, as much as $3 hundred,000 as reported by politico. five of those private flights appear to have taken place just last week. two and from massachusetts, new hampshire and fiphiladelphia, a commercially serviced routes. the treatment center just a mere 125 miles. or two and a half hour drive depending on traffic from hhs headquarters in downtown washington, d.c. the same trip by car would have cost an estimated $18 in gasoline each way for an suv and about $18 in tolls.