On Nov. 16, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein delivered a highly political message in support of private hospitals in a broadcast paid for by taxpayers. Klein used the broadcast to attack Albertans who said private hospitals would drain resources from the province's public health-care system. But he did not repeat remarks he made earlier that he favors these contracts over building new public hospitals.

Date: 1999-11-16
Placeline: EDMONTON, Alberta.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 14 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << I know that some people in group so telling you that our intent is to open the door to that so-called American style private for-profit healthcare where people with money and buy faster and better service but that simply is not true >>

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