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Switching drugs can send people with schizophrenia or manic depression back to the hospital, battling their mental illness once again, he said.

Fiscal conservatives usually aligned with Bush's Republican party have also assailed the president's embrace of an expansion to a government entitlement program.

The Cato Institute, a libertarian research group that espouses limited government, in a Feb.

9 research paper called the program ``fiscal insanity'' and urged Congress to redo the legislation and ``insist on significant market-based reforms, not merely an ever-expanding array of benefits.'' In the radio address, Bush was unapologetic, saying he ``was proud to sign this Medicare reform into law.'' Budget Earlier this week Bush requested $70 billion for paying the plans that administer the Medicare drug benefit in fiscal 2007, compared with $41 billion this fiscal year.

Payments from states and premiums will reduce the cost to the federal government to $53 billion in fiscal 2007 and $30 billion in fiscal 2006, according to the Congressional Budget Offi...

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