Myth- The President dictates healthcare policy?

Myth- The President dictates healthcare policy?

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Congress has the power over the purse strings, and it has the power over creating laws, and in order to create reform of healthcare you not only have to reform the bureaucracy , which the President has the power to do all on his own, but you also have to fund these new reforms which the House of Representatives has the power over and you have to create new laws which Congress has to approve any laws. So no, the President has to check with Congress, it has to check with the Senate and the House before he can get any expansive healthcare reforms. And even after that, any expansive healthcare reforms are going to be challenged in court, and the Supreme Court's going to be able to have its say on whether certain provisions of it are unconstitutional or whatever. But even before he does that, because healthcare is still, unless you nationalize all of healthcare, it's still going to be run by private organizations, private businesses, he has to talk to them and get them on board, and get healthcare advocates on board, or he's not going to get anything done anyways.