"Medical disability?!!!"------You're Not Going To Believe How Much HHS Officials Spent To Fly First Class

You're Not Going To Believe How Much HHS Officials Spent To Fly First Class » Dc Gazette
Let's see.
7000 flights-1400 flights over 14 hours=5600 flights not eligible for 1st class status.
5600 flights not eligible-5100 flights upgraded cuz of undefined "medical disability"=500 flights at "taxpayer class".
Or, more likely, business class.
Sooooo, 89% of HHS travelers have a "travel disability"?!!!!!!!

Adding to the outrage of how much the Obama Administration spends on travel, thanks to the Washington Examiner and the Freedom of Information Act, we now know what Health and Human Services staffers under former Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were spending to fly all over the world.  

In a nutshell: a lot.

The basic facts:

Between 2009 and 2013, executives spent $31 million to take 7,000 first class flights
 253 of those trips were one way tickets that cost $15,000
Records indicate that for $18 million worth of first class tickets, coach seats on the same flights would have cost $4.9 million
Of the 7,000 flights, only 1,400 were longer than 14 hours, for which a first class ticket is allowed (can’t say I blame anyone for taking advantage of that)
According to the records, on 5,100 of the flights where officials upgraded, a medical disability was used as the reason; what medical disabilities qualify or were used was not described
Former Secretary Sebelius, snazzy Kate herself, took 14 first class flights for a total of $56,000 some being of the Paris to India variety
It wasn’t just the HHS people, but their sub-departments as well: