Is the Current Health of our Presidents Adequately known?

 This blog is not intended to answer the title question, although I do think it is an important question to consider.  My research uncovered historic information of which I was unaware, and I think it deserves thought as medical treatment changes, as well as public awareness of our presidents' health becomes so important.  With hindsight, the issue of our presidents' health has been important for many years, but the publics access to information was less available.  In more recent years we have had both younger and elderly presidents.  For example, Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama were younger presidents, and Eisenhower, Johnson, and Reagan were older.  Our two most recent presidents are both in the older category.  Regardless of age, should voters know the status of the health of presidential candidates. 

Drown during covid by Lyn Fenwick

Certainly, being President of the United States and a leader of the free world inevitably puts stress on the president. Age in itself is not always what determines the physical and mental stress on the president.  President Jimmy Carter served only one term, but his post president life was extremely active years past his presidency.   

Woodrow Wilson suffered a number of strokes during his presidency, which his wife and personal physician concealed.  Grover Cleveland concealed a cancerous lesion on his upper pallet, pretending to be on a fishing trip when in fact a tumor and five teeth and part of his jaw were being removed, necessitated by his cigar chewing.  Dwight D. Eisenhower had heart disease during his presidency.  When Donald Trump had covid, he misrepresented the severity of his illness, and now in his second term he is private about his medical reports.

In 2000, Duke University did a study that indicated the first 37 presidents showed symptoms of health issues while in office, to the extent that it could have affected their leadership.

 We live in a different world today, in which things can happen far more rapidly than in the early days of the presidency.  Are we acting properly about the health of our current presidents?  Should voters have the right to know the health of presidential candidates when they vote.  If our president is unconscious or incapable of managing the office of the presidency, are our current procedures during such situations adequately covered?