Talk:United States Department of Health and Human Services/Archive 1

December 2005
A few things are unclear here:


 * 1) Table indidcates DHHS was established in 1953, but text says created 1979. I believe HEW was established 1953. Is there a way to clarify this?
 * 2) It's also not clear what was happening between 1979 when DHHS was legislated and 1980 when operations began. Did HEW continue to operate?
 * 3) I like the box being moved over, but then some of the numbers get shifted to two lines. How would it look if the years for the data were identified in column one, for example, Budget (2006):

flatrockdam 04:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

May 2007
Why was herricks high school removed from the top. Its initials are also HHS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.96.169 (talk) 07:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I think that HHS needs a disambiguation page. there are too many other things with the initials HHS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prophet121 (talk • contribs) 9:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

High school links
Folks, I removed the following links in the header:
 * "DHHS" redirects here. For the high schools, see Dana Hills High School or Daniel Hand High School.

I am sure there are a million things the abbreviations DHHS and HHS could refer to and these two do not seem to me particularly more important than the other million. I submit that we should not clutter up articles on major topics with links to "Fred's Autobody" and the "The Greater Bugtussle Chamber of Commerce", even if it is just one sentence. If somebody feels the DHHS confusion is that important then make DHHS into a disambig page but do not clutter this page.

--Mcorazao (talk) 18:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
Please note, the U.S. Veterans Administration was never part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. The U.S. Veterans Administration was an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States Government from 1930-1989; V.A. was elevated to cabinet-level status effective 1000 EST on 15 March 1989. The name was statutorily changed from the U.S. Veterans Administration to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Further, only in legal documents is "Veterans" denoted with an apostrophe (Veterans') when writing about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor, the U.S. Veterans Administration; otherwise, the "s'" should not be included. The establishment of the U.S. Veterans Administration in 1930 transferred and combined the functions of the Interior Department's Pension Bureau, certain U.S. Treasury Department functions with respect to veterans, and the independent Veterans' Bureau into one agency. The National Cemetery System was transferred to the V.A. in 1973 from the Department of the Army. It should be noted that several national cemeteries are maintained by the National Park Service (an agency of the Department of The Interior) and Arlington National Cemetery is under the Army's jurisdiction. Overseas cemeteries are under the jurisdiction of the American Battle Monuments Commission, an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States Government. I believe national cemeteries at Manila and the punch bowl at Hawaii are jointly maintained by V.A. and ABMC. The G.I. Bill has for the most part always been under V.A.'s jurisdiction (specifically in the VA's Veterans Benefits Administration and the Department of Veterans Benefits in the Veterans Administration) since 1944- the Small Business Administration and some other agencies oversee minor statutory portions of veterans benefits.

The Social Security Administration was formerly the Social Security Board, then was placed under the Federal Security Agency. After HEW came along, FSA was "dropped" and it became the Social Security Board and then, the Social Security Administration. Then SSA was separated from HHS. Today, there is a Social Security Board that oversees the SSA (an independent agency of the USG); the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Social Security are presidential appointees subject to Senate confirmation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.102.4.61 (talk) 19:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

April 2008
Why bother having an article on an agency with a 2008 budget of $697 billion without even mentioning that fact? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.172.73.26 (talk) 20:27, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Abortion
There have been controversies over the Department's links with private Catholic healthcare, notably on the topic on abortion and contraception ; it seems that this could be mentioned if the article became longer and more detailed. ADM (talk) 04:18, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Sebelius
shouldn't be listed as Secretary as she hasn't yet been confirmed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.208.17.254 (talk) 13:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Origin of Department
The article was wrong about how the department was created. HHS was not created from a split of the Health, Education, Welfare Department into HHS and the Department of Education. Instead, the education functions were transferred to Education and the old department was renamed Health and Human Services. Its head, also renamed, did not face confirmation, but remained in office as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

As a result, I have removed merged the brief text at United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into this article. -Rrius (talk) 06:47, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

List of former secretaries
I removed the list of former secretaries because it already exists at Secretary of Health and Human Services. -Rrius (talk) 06:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

"Main Division"?
In this and several other articles, the Public Health Service is referred to as "the main division" of HHS. What exactly does that mean? Isaac R (talk) 22:58, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Controversies
This is, in general, a highly controversial organization. A lot of accusation have been hurled at it (maybe deserved, maybe not). Some mention should be made of this. Gingermint (talk) 22:23, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

PPACA missing
I noticed that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is missing from the article? I'm not sure if this is meant to be conspicuous or not, but I am going to add it into the article.Myownworst (talk) 04:29, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Article needs serious expansion
This article should be providing an overview of what the Department of Health and Human services does and include information on how it runs any of its 300 departments. Just one of its departments, the FDA, has tons of information on its article and has a high importance in multiple wikiprojects. This is the boss of it and hundreds of others... seems pretty important to me. In addition, the only sources for this article seems to be .gov sites and only mentions the good things, I think there might be an neutrality problem. Silenceisgod (talk) 15:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding expansion. The Organizational Manual for HHS is located here: http://www.hhs.gov/hhsmanuals/hhsorganizational/. It describes the official organizational structures and functional statements of the Department. The organizational structure and any changes to it must be published in the Federal Register. The Congressional Budget Justification sent to Congress by HHS discusses how US tax dollars are spent (e.g., http://www.hhs.gov/budget/). HHS Agency Financial Reports Cover provide fiscal and high-level performance results that "enable the President, Congress, and American people to assess our accomplishments for fiscal year reporting periods". It includes an independent auditor's report. Disclosure: I am a full time employee of HHS. Kukt (talk) 04:29, 10 January 2014 (UTC)Kukt

To archive
http://www.cdc.gov/other/languages/images/fre/cdc_header_fr.gif has an alternate French name of the ministry. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:32, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/hotlines/AsyleeEligibility_french.htm is supposed to refer to another French name. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:51, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

History completely unclear
The "History" section begins by saying that the Department of Education and Welfare was not created in 1923. That's interesting trivia, but shouldn't the page say when this department was created? Or was it ever created? The page is totally unclear on that point.

The "History" section makes no mention of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at all, even though the introduction to the article indicates that this was the precursor to HHS, and even though Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Health, Education, and Welfare, and HEW all redirect to this page. I suspect that there is a relationship between the Dept. of Education and Welfare (see above) and the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, but what is that relationship? Was one renamed the other? Was one abolished, and the other later created?

Finally, the "History" section says "The department was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1979" -- but doesn't say which department was renamed this. If this is referring to HEW, that's obviously false, because HEW was split into HHS and Education, not simply renamed. &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 15:03, 20 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Having found a government publication--A Common Thread of Service: An Historical Guide to HEW. DHEW Publication No. (OS) 73-45 (July 1, 1972). Excerpted and retrieved here http://aspe.hhs.gov/info/hewhistory.htm on January 9, 2014--attempt has been made to full clarify the history of HHS. Disclosure: I am a full time employee of HHS in a non-political, civil service position. Kukt (talk) 04:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)Kukt

Translations
WhisperToMe (talk) 04:11, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * French: Ministère américain de la santé et des services aux personnes
 * German: Ministerium für Gesundheitspflege und Soziale Dienste
 * Italian: Dipartamento di Servizi sanitari e umani

Spanish documents
These Spanish documents may be helpful on the Spanish Wikipedia WhisperToMe (talk) 07:57, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * "¡DEFIÉNDASE! Robo de identidad médica y fraude a Medicare." (Archive)
 * "Alerta de Fraude Para Personas con Diabetes." (Archive)

Languages of the US Department of Health and Human Services Healthcare Marketplace
For people wanting to write Wikipedia content about the Healthcare Marketplace, the marketplace issued a document that states that its center can support the following languages other than English: WhisperToMe (talk) 10:09, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Arabic
 * Mandarin Chinese
 * French
 * French (Haitian) Creole
 * German
 * Gujarati
 * Hindi
 * Korean
 * Polish
 * Portuguese
 * Russian
 * Spanish
 * Tagalog
 * Urdu
 * Vietnamese

Assessment comment
Substituted at — Preceding unsigned comment added by JJMC89 bot (talk • contribs) 09:36, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

title series 1811

 * The special agents who work for OIG have the same title series "1811", training and authority as other federal criminal investigators, such as the FBI, ATF, DEA and Secret Service.

What does "title series '1811'" mean? —Tamfang (talk) 22:15, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Why list secretaries of HEW but not HHS?
This article contains a List of Federal Security Agency Administrators from 1939 to 1953.

It also contains a List of Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1953 to 1980.

But it does not contain a list of the secretaries of the Dept. of Health & Human Services!

I can see good arguments for including all three lists, and good arguments for including none of them. But it makes no sense for the Wikipedia article entitled United States Department of Health and Human Services to include a list of secretaries of other federal departments but not the one the article documents! &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 04:54, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Special Projects of National Significance
Insufficient information for an article of its own Rathfelder (talk) 22:29, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Agree that the page doesn't warrant a separate page, but United States Department of Health and Human Services is too high up the organizational ladder to merge to. SPNS is a part of "Part F" of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS programme, and hence is better merged to the Ryan White CARE Act. Klbrain (talk) 21:48, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Formally proposing that alternative. Klbrain (talk) 07:07, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Article conflicts with United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
According to Corkythehornetfan on the history of this, "Wright is the acting secretary. Hargan's position does NOT automatically give him the acting head position." I don't understand this. The article for the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services says: "incumbent Eric Hargan, acting since October 10, 2017" on the right. It seems that Corckythehornetfan said that before Hargan's position was officially head secretary, so I'm changing it. All right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imyxh (talk • contribs) 21:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Where to place criticisms
Edit: Found this link of agency criticisms Shushugah (talk) 17:02, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

I would like one list to link all criticisms of HHS and its sub agencies, because it's confusing where to add or find such content. For example section about unaccompanied minors could be placed inside HHS, ACF or ORR article.

I've taken liberty to create a new section on this page: Is there a standard procedure for other Cabinets? I see the NSA for example links all criticisms on its main page, rather than individual sub agencies. Shushugah (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2018 (UTC)