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Alberta Health-Care Premiums: Alison Redford, Premier, Says Province Won't Bring Them Back

First Posted: 11/23/11 06:27 PM ET Updated: 11/23/11 07:33 PM ET

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EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says her government won't bring back health-care premiums.

Redford says the fees that would cost about $1,000 per family a year are a non-starter.

Two cabinet ministers in charge of the government's purse strings raised the possibility earlier this week.

Doug Horner and Ron Liepert said they were not ruling out bringing back the premiums in a different form, although they wouldn't say what that might be.

The premiums, worth about a billion dollars a year to the provincial treasury, were phased out almost three years ago.

Redford says the government is pursuing all other avenues to balance the budget by 2013-14.

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EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says her government won't bring back health-care premiums.Redford says the fees that would cost about $1,000 per family a year are a non-starter.Two cabinet m...
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says her government won't bring back health-care premiums.Redford says the fees that would cost about $1,000 per family a year are a non-starter.Two cabinet m...
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TSOCANUCK
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07:20 AM on 11/24/2011
alberta denied the cpp from getting better ..i say leave canada ..alberta...invest your money on wall street and don't come crying
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10:23 PM on 11/23/2011
Liepert was born in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan. He grew up on the farm and attended a small rural school. He left high school in the middle of grade 11 at the age of 17.[2] He moved to Calgary where he took a job with Rosco Steel. For three years Liepert returned to the family farm to help with the crop, but he became disillusioned with farming and he settled into Calgary, Alberta year round. He was working at Burns Foods in 1971 when he decided to enroll in the Columbia School of Broadcasting. In 1972 Liepert, married and with an infant daughter, joined CHAB (AM) in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In the mid 1970s he took a position with CFCW (AM) radio in Camrose, Alberta, and from there he moved to the ITV network (later rebranded to CITV-TV) in Edmonton, Alberta near the end of the 70s.[2]-wikipedia
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Norseboy
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09:01 PM on 11/23/2011
This is the second time in the seven weeks since being elected Premier that Alison Redford has had to walk back flippant statements by Ron Liepert. First for musing about a PST and now about reinstating health care premiums. He was a bad choice for finance minister and Alison needs to take him out behind the woodshed for a good old down home Alberta whuppin' to get him to stay on message with the caucus.
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