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Prentice said his government is not bringing back the former health-care premiums that he described as “actually quite punitive.” He said his government will introduce a health-care levy that won’t be a payroll tax, but provided no other details.

“I think you can view it as a progressive measure,” the premier said.
Finance Minister Robin Campbell told the legislature the former health-care premium was “hard on low-income wage-earners.”

“Let me be very clear that we are not going to entertain a health-care premium that was done in the past,” Campbell said of the old fee that charged Alberta families up to $1,056 annually. “That was a regressive tax.”

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