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Alberta renews efforts to scrap paper health-care cards to integrate with driver's licences

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Paper health-care cards have long been criticized as too fragile and vulnerable to fraud.

Alberta has issued paper health cards since 1969 that list a name, birthdate, and personal health number.

In Budget 2021 , the government committed $ 600,000 in its capital plan to “add personal health numbers to driver’s licence(s) and identification card(s). In 2019 , the United Conservative Party pledged to combine health cards and driver's licences.

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