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Carol Wilder, a single mother from nearby Bozeman who was laid off her from job in January and now has her two kids covered by Medicaid, wanted to know if Obama was going to follow the methods of countries such as Canada and the U.K. Obama responded that Americans pay more than $5,000 a year more than residents of those countries for their insurance and added that he is shooting for a "uniquely American system" without the government-run hospitals of some other countries. "It's not true that government will meddle with your doctor...
Another single mother, Sarah Landry, a Montana State University student, told Obama her 11-year-old son has severe autism and Type I diabetes and that "I rely heavily on Medicaid for coverage." She worried that a national plan might cut into his coverage. Obama assured her, "If your son currently qualifies for Medicaid, he could continue on Medicaid ... Our [existing] system is not a health-care system - it's a disease-care system, because we wait until someone gets very sick." For example, he said, a diabetic should be counseled on health and helped long before reaching the point...
...China is the mother of all emerging markets. Do you see its stock market on a boom-bust trajectory, or is this the dawn of a major bull market, akin to 1982 in the U.S.? I would characterize it as being more similar to the U.S. in 1982. And China is still cheap. It isn't as cheap as it was four months ago, but that was the bottom of a long-term bear market, so I still think it looks really good...
...months after being released from his second prison term, Richard killed Marguerite Lucille Dixon, 53, a nurse and mother of seven. Dixon had invited him in for a cold glass of water after Richard had knocked on her front door and asked if her van was for sale. Two of her children found her. She had been sexually assaulted before being killed, and her van and television were stolen. A year later, Richard was on death row. After confessing, Richard claimed he was innocent, but his appeal centered on a history of alleged family abuse and his supposed...
...trial from the CCA because the alleged abuse he had suffered at the hands of his father had not been considered in his first trial, according to the appellate record. But Richard was convicted again in 1995 and once again given the death penalty, even after his mother and sister were allowed to testify about the alleged abuse during the punishment phase of the trial. Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the execution of mentally retarded prisoners, his lawyers appealed for another trial based on his alleged IQ level. The CCA turned him down and that appeal was ongoing...