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Is the separation of power system successful, are the branches of government balanced in power?

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The separation of power system is as successful as it can be under the circumstances but it is not perfectly balanced. The Executive Branch is always in a power struggle with the Congress and this leaves the Executive agencies in a bad position because it has to be navigate between abiding by the congressional requests and the executive orders.

For example, political appointee Thomas Scully, past head of the Medicare and Medicaid agency, threatened to fire Medicare's chief actuary, careerist Richard Foster, if he met Congress' ...

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