The White House is where the President works. The President of the United States is the head of the executive branch, which makes laws official. The President is elected by the entire country and serves a four-year term. The President approves and carries out laws passed by the legislative branch (or he can veto them).

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The executive branch carries out and enforces laws. It includes the president, vice president, the Cabinet, executive departments, independent agencies, and other boards, commissions, and committees.

Other agencies became separate departments, such as the Bureau of Agriculture, which later became the Department of Agriculture. However, land and natural resource management, American Indian affairs, wildlife conservation, and territorial affairs remain the responsibilities of the Department of the Interior.

In 1789 Congress created three Executive Departments: Foreign Affairs (later in the same year renamed State), Treasury, and War. It also provided for an Attorney General and a Postmaster General. Domestic matters were apportioned by Congress among these departments.

The United States federal executive departments are among the oldest primary units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States–the Departments of State, War, and the Treasury all being established within a few weeks of each other in 1789.

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• Office of the President.
• Office of the Vice President.
• Department of Education.
• Department of Finance.
• Department of Health.
• Department of Science and Technology.
• Department of Trade and Industry.

CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services.

8 Important Regulations in United States Health Care

• Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA)
• Medicare.
• Medicaid.
• Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
• Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

CDC detects and controls outbreaks at their source, saving lives and reducing healthcare costs. Importantly, CDC helps other countries build capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to their health threats through our work. The goal is to stop diseases where they occur as soon as they start.

Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code § 264), the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to take measures to prevent the entry and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and between states.

CDC helps make food safer by: Working with partners to determine the major sources of foodborne illnesses and annual changes in the number of illnesses, investigate multistate foodborne disease outbreaks, and implement systems to better prevent illnesses and detect and stop outbreaks.