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Originally Posted by monkeyman
One of the biggest mistakes the PC's made was eliminating the user portion of Alberta health care. If I'm not mistaken, Alberta is the only province not to have a basic user pay amount.
It was never punitive, it was a monthly base amount and you could apply for subsidies if you couldn't afford it.
Of course at the time, Alberta was debt free with a huge contingency fund. Even the left was applauding its elimination.
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I dunno, it wasn't really that fair. So you could get it paid for if you are low income, student, or senior, and most large companies covered it for employees, so it left a lot of middle income people working in small companies stuck paying it. It was another program to administer, so cost money to run. So just take it out of normal taxes and save all of the above. I'm fine with not having it as some seperate "reminder" that we have health care.