He twice ran unsuccessfully in statewide elections, finishing third in Democratic primaries for the United States Senate in 1998 and for Governor of Kentucky in 2007.
As President of the Student Government Association and as a Kentucky resident, Henry also served as a voting member of the WKU Board of Regents.
Henry and his innovative techniques received international recognition on CNN during the Persian Gulf War, when the beads were used to treat wounded soldiers.
In 2002 and 2003 it emerged that the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky was investigating Henry for fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billings while he taught at the University of Louisville Medical School from 1996 through 2001.
Henry counter sued claiming that the University of Louisville employees had verified his presence at the procedures before he had signed the papers.
Henry also charged a four night stay during two beauty pageants in a Lexington, Kentucky, hotel – just 30 miles from the lieutenant governor's mansion – to the state.
[7] In September 2003, Henry paid the federal government $162,000 to settle allegations that he defrauded Medicare and Medicaid over a period of more than four years while he was a teaching physician at University Hospital.
[9] In June 2007, it was reported that Henry was dismissed from the University of Louisville hospital faculty because of concerns about his attendance and performance and related liability problems.
[11] Henry was scheduled to enter guilty pleas on December 21, 2009, to criminal charges related to campaign finance law violations.
[7] Henry's plea agreement calls for him to be fined $500 and sentenced to 12 months in jail, to be conditionally discharged for two years if he engages in no further criminal conduct in that time.