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To: EyeDrMike who wrote (3896)	12/18/1997 8:20:00 PM
From: blankmind	Respond to of 23519

-- Thanks for posting real insider sales numbers. -- Anyone catch the Japanese socialized medicine piece in Forbes this week? -- Seems socialists screw everything up all the time. -- In Japan, doctors can only charge like $10 for office visits. So the doctors prescribe medicine to make up the difference. As they have an ownership interest in the dispensary. -- Very hard to get a drug approved in Japan for these reasons. As the gov't doesn't want to pay for it. But if you can get your drug approved, the drug co. stands to make a mint. --Out.