Talk:United States Department of Health and Human Services

Youtube Channel Hacked
The US Department of Health and Human Services official youtube channel has been hacked by a crypto scam group. AmericanAccount704 (talk) 23:33, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program assignment
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Rather amusing...
... that the pictures in the infobox (in the current version of the article) should be missing during the ongoing government shutdown... Airbornemihir (talk) 13:55, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of the controversies segment
The segment on the use of antipsychotic drugs on minors is heavily emotionalized and misleading.

> HHS is evidenced to be actively coercing and forcing bio-substances such as antipsychotics[38] on migrating children without consent, and under questionable medical supervision.

According to the article, the consent that they aren't getting is *parent or guardian* consent, and there was no indication that the children were being forced to take antipshychotics. In addition, the scope is heavily speculative, with a class action lawsuit containing only 4 plaintiffs. As the number of children and teenagers number in the thousands, barring a much larger exposed number this appears an aberration, not a standard.

>The forced drugging, deaths, and disappearances of migrating Mexican and Central American children might be related to DHS falsely labeling them and their families as 'terror threats' before HHS manages their incarcerations.

Now that the author has established wrongly that the druggings are forced, and that the scope is endemic, they can now freely slander the organization. This is standard misleading argumentation tactics

>and HHS has not stopped forcing drugs on the children it incarcerates.

And now the author can safely imply that ALL children are forced to take drugs. Interesting leaps of logic this author has taken! I wonder what their motivation might be.

75.139.129.173 (talk) 03:05, 13 June 2019 (UTC)Davan

DDOS cyberattacked, add?
USDHHS was hit with a DDOS cyberattack, designed to overload the HHS servers with millions of hits over several hours. The attack reportedly didn’t succeed in significantly slowing the agency’s systems. X1\ (talk) 06:01, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/u-s-health-agency-suffers-cyber-attack-during-covid-19-response
 * https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cyberattack-hhs-meant-slow-coronavirus-response-sources/story?id=69619094
 * https://www.axios.com/us-health-department-hit-by-cyber-attack-during-coronavirus-0004b726-ddab-4528-97a9-df25b43b0106.html

Health and Human Services Misused Millions Meant for Vaccine Research
HHS inspector general says the department misreported over $500 million in administrative spending.

"I am deeply concerned about ASPR's apparent misuse of millions of dollars in funding meant for public health emergencies like the one our country is currently facing with the COVID-19 pandemic," Kerner said. "Equally concerning is how widespread and well-known this practice appeared to be for nearly a decade."

https://reason.com/2021/01/29/report-health-and-human-services-misused-millions-meant-for-vaccine-research/?amp&__twitter_impression=true TuffStuffMcG (talk) 18:46, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-officials-misappropriated-millions-earmarked-biomedical-research-investigation/story?id=75518561 TuffStuffMcG (talk) 18:48, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Challenging clear vandalism on 21 August 2012 to lead paragraph
I am challenging this |edit on 21 August 2012 by an anonymous editor at 83.145.211.135, which inserted the frivolous and unsourced assertion that HHS is called the Health Department. There is no source cited for this nonsense, and a quick glance at Google and Google Books reveals none.

I recently caught and reverted such obvious vandalism, then User:Chicdat just reverted my edit by claiming it's not vandalism. It's clear that User:Chicdat has no idea what they are talking about, but for now, I have marked the assertion as unsourced. If I don't see some reliable sources within a couple of weeks, that assertion is out of here.

As anyone who has actually spent significant amounts of time dealing with American health care is aware, the department is always called HHS. The reason it is never called the health department is that the phrase "health department" is fatally ambiguous. Regulation of health care in the United States is severely fragmented between the federal government and state governments, as well as various nongovernmental organizations like the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Although I don't currently practice health care law, I was briefly involved in that field briefly at the beginning of my career, plus I also volunteered in a hospital on a weekly basis for over three and a half-years and have more relatives working in health care than I can count on both hands. So I am much more comfortable in the hospital environment than most laypersons and I am very well-versed in current developments in health care. --Coolcaesar (talk) 21:55, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * A Google search "Federal Health Department USA" gives the Department of Health and Human Services as its only target. Remember, readers first; if Health Department is a common nonprofessional title for HHS, it should be in the article. 🐔 Chicdat  Bawk to me!  10:03, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Your statement is based on the unstated and incorrect assumption that people even use the phrase "health department" in American English to begin with. They don't. They either refer to HHS specifically, or to the state public health department (a state agency) or the county health department (a county agency). It sounds like you haven't spent enough time in health care environments or watching American television. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:21, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Scams involving this Department
Are there scans citing this Department? 2606:9CC0:100:D2:F538:173D:733A:9CB7 (talk) 15:21, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

DHHS vs DHS
Most people I've met call DHHS "DHS". Should a "not to be confused with Department of Homeland Security" section be added? GamerKlim9716 (talk) 01:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)