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• The governor's plan to provide low income Californians substantial discounts on prescription medications is already generating controversy.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking drugmakers and pharmacies to voluntarily give discounts to low income, uninsured state residents.
• The discounts, which would average about 40 percent, would take effect next year.
• Qualified Californians would be issued a prescription drug discount card.
• An estimated five million residents may be eligible for the program.
• They include families earning less than $57,000 annually and singles making under $28,000 a year.
• Schwarzenegger has lined up an unlikely political ally in his effort to make the plan a reality.
• Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, is sponsoring Senate Bill 19, which would put the governor's plan into effect.
• While supporters of the plan say it could provide cheaper medication without undue government interference in business, critics charge that it doesn't go far enough.

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