Clinton releases tax, health records.
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband paid close to $44 million in federal taxes since 2007 and she is in “excellent physical condition” — two facts that emerged Friday in a flood of disclosures about the Democratic presidential candidate pushed out by her campaign on a busy summer day.
The Clintons earned more than $139 million between 2007 and 2014, according to the returns, and made almost $15 million in charitable contributions — including a $3 million donation to their family foundation in 2014. Last year, they paid an overall federal tax rate of 35.7 percent.
The couple made nearly $23 million from speaking fees alone in 2013 — the year Mrs. Clinton left the State Department — and collected an additional $20 million from paid events last year. The remainder of their income came largely from book royalties and consulting fees paid to Bill Clinton.
In a statement, Mrs. Clinton emphasized that she came into her wealth later in her life — an effort to draw a distinction with Republican Jeb Bush, the scion of a rich political family.
“We’ve come a long way from my days going door-todoor for the Children’s Defense Fund and earning $16,450 as a young law professor in Arkansas — and we owe it to the opportunities America provides,” she said.
Mr. Bush has earned nearly $28 million since leaving the Florida governor’s mansion in 2007 and paid an effective federal income tax rate of roughly 36 percent in the past three decades, according to tax returns released by his campaign last month. He’s said he paid a higher rate than the Clintons, though he earned less income.
Both candidates are in the top 1 percent of taxpayers, who paid an average of 30.2 percent between 1981 and 2011, according to figures from the Congressional Budget Office. The average for middle-income households in that time was 16.6 percent.
The financial release came just hours after Lisa Bardack, an internist and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group near the Clintons’ suburban New York home, publicly detailed Mrs. Clinton’s health in a two-page letter.
The report said Mrs. Clinton, who is 67, has fully recovered from a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting, an episode that Dr. Bardack attributed to a stomach virus and dehydration.
During the course of her concussion treatment, Mrs. Clinton was also found to have a blood clot and was given medication to dissolve it. She remains on the medicine as a precaution, Dr. Bardack wrote.
The blood clot, which was in a vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear, led Mrs. Clinton to spend a few days in New York-Presbyterian Hospital and take a month-long absence from the State Department for treatment.
Republican strategist Karl Rove later cast the incident as a “serious health episode” that would be an issue if Clinton ran for president, fueling a theory the concussion posed a graver threat to her abilities than Clinton and her team let on.
Dr. Bardack said testing the following year showed “complete resolution” of the concussion’s effects, including double vision, which Mrs. Clinton wore glasses with special lenses to address.
According to her doctor’s assessment, Mrs. Clinton’s cholesterol and blood pressure are in normal, healthy ranges, and she has had the major cancer screenings and exams recommended for someone her age. She has a very common thyroid condition and seasonal allergies, and takes a blood thinner — Coumadin — as a precaution since her fall and the blood clot.
There was no mention of Mrs. Clinton’s height or weight.
“There’s no red flags there,” said Dr. Mark Creager, director of the Dartmouth-Hitchkock heart and vascular center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and president of the American Heart Association.
Mrs. Clinton’s doctor said she exercises regularly — practicing yoga, swimming, walking and weight training — and eats a diet rich in lean proteins, vegetables and fruits. She does not smoke and drinks alcohol “occasionally,” Dr. Bardack wrote.