department of behavioral health and intellectual disability services, philadelphia, pennsylvania; fran harding, director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; john shinholser, president, mcshin foundation, richmond, virginia; pat taylor, executive director, faces & voices of recovery, washington, d.c. fran, why is there a need to increase public awareness and support related to mental and substance use disorders? it's a good question because many people are thinking that they've seen way too much information on this, and, in fact, what we have learned is that we have to get the message out so people understand the facts. they understand that substance abuse and mental health disorders are-is just another chronic illness or problem in the public health realm, and we want-as we move closer to health reform, we want the american public to understand that where we fit into overall health and general medicine. so we're-we need to get the message not only to parents, not only to young people, but to schools, to faith-based organizations, to communities, to businesses. every piece of america needs to understand how s

of sara's condition. she suffered from cystic fibrosis and doctors say she has weeks to live. >> we were overjoyed. i know that ten days could get a life she deserves. >> heather: the department of health and human services declining to khentd. later on her aunt will be on at 8:45. >>> new developments in the irs scandal. lawmakers are holding a hearing today to find out why the irs spent almost $50 million on conferences and they also want to get to the possible kickback that has came with the spending. on the heels of two irs employees put on leave for accepting $1200 in free food and gifts at party in 2010. they were tasked in enforcing the obamacare overhaul. >> and deadline for eric holder to explain his testimony has come and gone. deadline was close of business on wednesday and holder said he knew nothing about the potential prosecution. it was later discovered that he played a hand to get james rosen's personal emails. despite pressure to resign, he plans to stick it out. >> there are things i want to do, things i want to get done. once i have finished that, i'll sit down with him and we'll determine when it's time to make a transition to another attorney general. >> but you are not stepping down

department of health and human services. test, test, test, test, test, test, test >> good morning, everyone welcome to the board of supervisors finance committee special meeting for june 17th. i'm supervisor mark farrell joined by erick moore and other supervisors. i'd like to thank the clerk mr. vic as well as the members of sftv covering this meeting mr. clerk do we have any announcements >> yes, please silence all electronic devisess. items acted upon today will be acted on today's agenda unless otherwise stated >> just to give the public a announcement we're going to take care of some budget things first. we have time constraints i want to make sure we call everyone up in order so people can go back to their day jobs >> item number one technology to enter into the 7th amendment into the radio project between the city and a motor role to $8 million. >> marble who is here. so mark if you would come up and just speak about this item and then we'll take comment >> good morning. thank you for the report deborah. so this contra

and we will continue our efforts to be a healthier city. the affordable care act will extend health insurance to 35,000 san franciscans and our department of public health and human services agency will implement our nation's health care reform. but on our streets there are still too many people, families without a place to call home. and that's why we are extending a dedicated emergency family shelter to provide year round services, adding 25 more units of family supportive housing and supporting a new approach to housing transitional aids youth and getting them connected to work. (applause) >> to offset the state's deep cuts to our school district, this proposed budget includes an unprecedented $110 million in education support over the next two years, and we are taking on additional responsibilities at our school districts where we will see new support from the private sector for middle schools, and new support with our federal partners with promised neighborhoods grants. and thanks to our city librarian, we will be extending library hours throughout our city. (applause) >> we are going to make san francisco an even safer city. we developed a six-year police staff and

wednesday the family file add lawsuit against the department of health and human services to get herthe adult list. the current policy prevents children under 12 for being on the list. the judge issued a 10-day restraining order. they want her to be considered for an adult lung. >> it's allowing her to be on equal grounds with the other folks, adults. >> reporter: as sara became sicker over the past few weeks, the family wants health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius to change the policy. sebelius said it's in the within her policy. >> the worst of our worlds in my mind is to have some individual pick and choose who lives and who dies. you want a process that's guided by medical science and experts. >> reporter: there are four in need of a transplant but sara is so sick it's likely she will be at the top of the list. guidelines have to assume fareness. >> you have to work within the rules, but also to make the case when you believe that children would be add variously effected by the policy. >> i lost two teeth. >> reporter: time for sara still running out but the family

department of health and human services. few cities have. and now, please join me in welcoming the mayor of our great city the honorable edwin m. lee (applause) . . >> thank you very much mr. davis for that introduction, happy valentine's everybody ... >>> (applause) . >> wow what a wonderful occasion. i mean how can you be today valentine's day in a room full of heros on the field of heros yeah (applause) in the innovation capital of the world the world class city of san francisco congratulations everybody for being a hero today. you know the san francisco hospital foundation the general hospital foundation has been such a wonderful wonderful entity and i want to just thank stephanie your leadership, i want to thank julie and rich at the board with all of the other board members, the staff at the hospital, all of the staph, you know sometimes the doctors have to do it's emergency work but what makes that whole hospital run is literally everybody that works at the hospital from the social workers to the accountants to the administrators to th

of these portfolio management efforts are just being realized and expect to grow over time. >> good morning, ranking member i am frank bateman. atm the assistant secretary the department of health and human services. the work of this committee is crucial for the management of government resources. information technology is deeply ingrained in the business of fhs. the department of health and human services is a large, knowledge based organization, using fundamental knowledge to delivery with applied research and the regulation of drugs and devices, with the reimbursement of medical services. are managed by a distinct operating division. each division has its own officer. given the current structure. my goal is to have a holistic view of the entire department -- and my responsibility is to ensure this is being carried out across the department -- supported by a cost-effective infrastructure. i believe this affords me a huge meat -- a unique vantage to streamline operations. just as importantly, because we are a knowledge enterprise there is great value in collaboration and the labeling information -- forlow freely to others -- public health and human services. we have seen some notable exceptions

wednesday her parents filed a lawsuit against the department of health and human services to get herluded on the adult list. current policy prevents children under 12 from being on the list. but late wednesday judge michael bailson offered a ten-day restraining order directing the department oh immediately cease application of the under 12 rule as to sarah murnaghan so she can be considered for receipt of donated lungs from adults. >> the jij is allowing her to be on equal ground with the adults. >> reporter: as sarah became sicker over the past few week it is family appealed to health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius to change the policy oh. sebelius said it was not within her power to immediately change it. >> the worst of all worlds in my mind is to have some vinl pick and choose who lives and dies. i think you want a process where it's guided by medical science and medical experts. >> reporter: secretary sebelius saying there are 40 adults in murnaghan's region in need of a transplant. the family says sarah is so sick it is likely she'll still be at the top of the a

department of health and human services. few cities have. e in welcoming the mayor of our great city the honorable edwin m. lee (applause) . .

and stt start from scratch. getting it on track, it's already aainwreck. it never should have gotten out of the nation itself. health insurance being governed by the department of health and human services and the irs is policin it why are we allowing this? nothing made sense about this bill. this is a political stand to try to sit here and take over. including the orders of barack obama continuing to say that he has health car. @% will literally put us in gre. >> okay, it kind of reminds me of this. the fact of the matter is that it has gaping wounds everywhere. >> and feelslike that because it see like there's a ot of ba-aids on it. i get . but that is part of the problem the way th they rammed it through. it is very costly to do that, t puts a lot of tis on th irs. it makes a lot of mistakes that we kw and also medicare and a host of other things that the government asks us to do. >> i mean, are you going tohave the irs do this to the degree they planned to do it or are you going to find a way to make this more affordable so more participate bcause you make an exemption foa lot of them. you takethat away, part-time, full-time. yosee what i'm getting at. you have to undo a lot of this

and the airport and our police department and fire department and human services agency and our health department. you can see the next chart shows you where we get most of our money. so we spend a lot of time in san francisco talking about how to balance the budget. and we tend to focus that balancing conversation on what we call the general fund. those are the funds that the city has discretion over. in terms of making policy choices on what to spend money on and what to cut. where do we get our money? the biggest resource for san francisco and property taxes, it's over $1 billion a year. and we receive significant revenues from the business taxes and sales tax and hotel tax as well as other local sources. also important to know that about one out of every five dollars that san francisco spends comes from the state and federal government. when the federal government does things like implement a federal sequester. that has an impact here on san franciscans. if the state budget changes, that has an effect here on us. it's important to know that we have control over some of our revenue but not all of them. the mayor shared with you our five-year budget ou

identified secret e-mail accounts from government officials including secretary of department of health and human services kathleen sebelius the associated press sifted through hundreds of government e-mails received through the freedom of information request but the organization was unable to find any material turned over from the secret addresses white house spokesperson jay carney acknowledged the e-mail practice and said it wasn't a big deal take a listen. this is a practice consistent with prior administrations of both parties and as the story itself may clear any for you request or congressional inquiry includes a search in all of the e-mail accounts used by any political appointee so the answer is all of this information is provided having alternate e-mail addresses for cabinet secretaries and other high profile officials makes eminent sense well he went on to say that even he has a separate government e-mail address from his own internal dealings so now that the practice is out in the open what will this mean for the future of government transparency well the freedom of information act requests ar

department of health and human services. [music] the national alliance on mental illness, also known as nami, has a mission to help improve the lives of people affected by mental illness. the bottom line is to save lives and to support recovery. our approach in support groups and education groups and what we do on the information helpline really has to do with recovery and the ability of each person to live in the community as much as possible to engage and to give people the idea that recovery is a possibility, that people with these illnesses from depression to schizophrenia live in the community and have lives and work, and none of this means that your life is going to come to an end. in my lifetime, people used to whisper about cancer. they wouldn't talk about it. it was not talked about. and it's the same with mental illness-that people don't want to talk about it because it can be debilitating. it's critical that we really do have a national dialogue on it and that the national dialogue frankly not focus on worst case s

of prescription drugs without federal authority to do so. medicare is picking up the tab. with more on this, former policy advisor to the centers for medicaid and medicare services. this report from the department of health and humanervices is shocking, how does it happen? >> some of these are people licensed in a particular state to prescribe, the proponents of government run health care talk about how cheap it is to administer the program, now we know why. they don't do any utilization review. lori: in other words, there is no oversight. >> there is no oversight. we have thousands of providers to see what is being done. if you look at medicare, they don't provide providers to do that. they require documentation. if you're going to cheat the system, you are going to fix the documentation. >> word in this report, a florida massage therapist wrote 3700 prescriptions for drugs in 2009, how come that didn't raise any red flags back in 2009? >> it is not that hard to cheat the system if you're willing to break the law. some of these prescriptions are for dangerous drugs that should be prescribed to senior citizens. lori: do you agree this is taxpayer-funded drug abuse? >> that is exactly what it is. >> this report don

there's a department of health and human services. the adult protective servicesvie staff reside 240-777-3,000. one could call the police, call 911, one could be anywhere to register this and it gets to the appropriate source. in theat department of health ad human services we have teams of trained clinical social worker and community health workers who team up to do the investigations in the home when there's an allegation. we keep the source of the referral confidential so one need not fear making the referral if it's made in good faith. anyone could know they are proinfected. it said every five seconds an elder is abused. in montgomery county theyy investigate 700 allegations. working closely with the state's attorney office we have an elder abuse task with we look at how h to coordinate the services because it requires a multidiscipline far iny approach to this problem. >> how do you make sure that you have someone in a reputable living center, retirement agency but you suspect something isn't the quite right. how can you be an ad

health problems last summer when he was hospitalized for a bladder infection. >> a 10-year-old pennsylvania girl needs a lung transplant and a federal judge ordered the department of health and human servicesset aside a rule for 10 days that children 12 and younger cannot be on the waiting list for adult lungs. despite the victory the girl is not guaranteed a transplant 1,700 people are waiting for a transplant and the child's condition have gotten worse and she has only weeks to live if she doesn't get a transplant. >> we're overjoyed. i know 10 days could mean her living a good full life that she deserves. >> tonight a second child is asking a judge to be placed on an adult list. she claims if her son doesn't get a set of lungs he will die. >> a northwest d.c. community on edge after a terrifying morning attack. the suspect prowling our streets. the latest for the armed and dangerous suspect. >> more problems for bryce harper tonight ooch. >> [ male announcer ] you know what's so awesome about the internet? it gets more and more entertaining every day. and once you've got verizon fios, that's when you get it -- america's fastest, most reliable internet takes your entertainment to ridicul

with the department of health and human services. this makes it more difficult for and when to recruit elections. >> we will leave it there. thank you for joining us on "newsmakers" this sunday morning. >> i appreciate it very much. >> what does he get out of this job? >> he gets an opportunity to bolster his national profile. from hisome goodwill colleagues in the senate, certainly from senate leader mcconnell. he will have help with the state and any future ambitions he has with in the senate caucus. ,> going back to immigration which is one of the centerpieces of the agenda, there seems to be a different track between the house and the senate. s aree senate republican trying to build a big win. this is not what speaker boehner or cantor walk. it is with the younger members of the house republican conference. they are the ones who drive the debate. if john boehner is going to bring a bill to the floor, he needs to bring a bill that can achieve what he calls the hatchet girl -- rule. if he passes it without every a majority, you are

kaplan, who should have been in the courtroom but wasn't called by the department of health and human servicescourt and you say people saying, arbitrary or capricious, you'll have a long line of people saying i don't like the system, put me at the top, for whatever reason. you're starting to jeopardize the entire distribution system that we have for all organs. in other words, i could say, hey, they've got me lower down the list because i'm aged. find me a federal judge and let stick me up there. we have tried to distribute organs in according to who is most likely to live, who is most likely to benefit from getting one. when you start to turn it into a p.r. contest, might not be in the best use. >> surprising the government is not appealing the decision. it's very unusual for a federal judge to substitute his or her judgment for the judgment of either the experts 0 that hhs employed or the secretary of hh herself. so when the federal judge did and it she said i'm not going appeal, she is accepting the fact that this judge took discretion away from her. judges don't usually do that shepç: >>