Very Few Health Conditions Should Disqualify You From The Presidency

“When you’re running for president, I think, you have an obligation to be healthy,” Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, told Dr. Mehmet Oz on “The Dr. Oz Show” Thursday. The interview came in the same week that the media and Republicans criticized Trump’s opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, about being less than candid about her recent bout with pneumonia. Trump revealed that his blood pressure, liver and thyroid function are within the normal range on the much-anticipated show, and acknowledged some concerns about his weight. Trump ― who weighs 236 pounds, doesn’t exercise regularly and enjoys fast food ― said he “could lose a little weight” when Oz questioned him about his body-mass index, which is in the outer limits of overweight category, according to the National Institutes of Health calculator. But just how healthy do you have to be in order to be president? And why is everyone so focused on the candidates’ health, instead of their policies?  Arthur Caplan, the founding director of New York University’s Division of Medical Ethics, thinks Clinton and Trump’s relative old age ― she is 68, he is 70 ― is the reason there’s been such intent focus on the candidates’ medical records.  “In other elections, we’ve had younger people running, so health doesn’t come up as an obvious thing to folks in the same way,” Caplan...
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