Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing,

sponsored by UC Davis. And I'm Jake Sherman. Our health care team this morning has a scoop that I

love. HHS secretary Tom Price took private jets for five different official trips last week.

The flights cost tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel. The private air travel is definitely a break from his Obama-era predecessors.

There's a big misconception out there that politicians take jets everywhere.

They don't.

Cabinet secretaries oftentimes fly commercial.

The vast, vast majority of politicians, especially members of Congress,

fly commercial through awful airline hubs just like we do. The Senate left town

Tuesday afternoon for the week with a definite sense that Graham Collins' health care bill

had a serious chance of becoming law. Don't mistake Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's

silence for indifference or uncertainty. Sungman Kim and Burgess Everett are reporting that

Senate Republicans are already ripping Kentucky Senator

Rand Paul for rejecting the bill. Senators Lisa Murkowski and John McCain remain the critical

votes. If the bill passes the Senate, Rachel Bade and Kyle Cheney report that House Republicans

would be under tremendous pressure to take up the legislation and pass it through their chamber,

though it's no sure thing.

Republicans in the capitals seem fairly confident that they'll be able to get it through

the House. I also am skeptical. Meanwhile, Jen Habercorn reports that Senate Democrats are considering

tying up the repeal debate for days through procedural tricks. If Senate Democrats had their way,

it would drag the debate past the September 30th deadline.

There's also some stiff outside opposition to the bill, including from health care groups,

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