Did you know that former President Grover Cleveland once had jaw surgery aboard his yacht to keep his cancer diagnosis secret? In today's world of tell-all press, it's hard to imagine a president getting away with such a thing. Still, during this year's exciting election campaign, a candidate's health issue that could lead voters to turn to vote for someone else is more likely to be swept under the rug than shared with the public.

Some people are asking -- do we, the public, have a right to know what's inside a candidate's medical records? Though it's routine for candidates to reveal their records voluntarily, some are saying that candidates should be required to undergo a full and thorough physical by a non-biased medical professional, and that the results should be made available to voters.

Because presidential candidates are still citizens, letting the Average Joe dig through personal information is obviously a privacy issue. What do you think -- should candidates bare all in order to be elected, or should their health information be kept private like everyone else?

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It's enlightening to head that a new survey concluded with almost nine out of 10 Americans saying that health care will at least be somewhat important to them in this year's Presidential race.

I indicated in many posts from 2007 that health care in the U.S. deserves consideration as one of (or the) top issues that voters should consider when evaluating the Presidential candidates this year all the way until the final election in November. Why? Well, there are over 40 million with no health insurance living in the U.S., for starters.

The Commonwealth Fund conducted the study that indicated such a high concern about U.S. health care among voters. 86 percent (out of 3,501 surveyed) indicated that the health care platform of Presidential candidates would be very to somewhat important in a decision of which candidate to support.

That is excellent news. Health care costs, insurance costs and related items are in need of so much work in the U.S. health care system that the next President will have quite a job just in that area alone.

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Kathy Stangl, a woman who was supposed to die last April according to her doctors, is still alive and well -- and she wants to know what the next President is going to do about the state of health care in the U.S.

Strangl says "I want to see what they said about health care, what they said about research." This is a question every single American should be asking of those Presidential hopefuls currently crossing the nation on the campaign trail, hearing things from citizens and blowing smoke in the opposite direction.

Instead of waiting on her days to end, Strangl has attended more than 70 campaign events and has directly questioned two potential candidates. If most of the U.S. is to continue its high-stress, overweight, no-exercise state of affairs, we'll all need health care one day soon. Is that how you are going to vote for the next President?

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