Hey there. I want to give you an update on my favorite story of the year. You may remember

Jared Walker, who posted a video to TikTok in January with a bit of semi-secret knowledge.

Non-profit hospitals are legally required to offer charity care. To have a policy saying,

if your income falls below some level we specify, we will write off your bill, really.

The hospital legally has to forgive your medical bills. Let me show you how this works.

Type in the hospital. Any demonstrators? In a 60-second video.

Be the top link. Let's check. How to figure out if you might be eligible

and offered to help make it happen. If you want to test it out, I run a non-profit

that does this, so DM me and I will actually do it for you. Let's see if we can crash those

of medical bills. Jared went super viral. In its first week, that video was seen more than 10

million times. Jared heard from thousands of people looking for help. In the last six months,

Jared has been working his way through that mountain of requests. And he's done something else.

He started building a system to help a lot more people, a lot faster.

This is an arm in a leg, a show about the cost of health care. I'm Dan Weissman,

I'm a reporter and I like the challenge. So my job on this show is to take one of the most

enraging, terrifying, depressing parts of American life and bring you a show that's entertaining

and powering and useful. Let's go.

In addition to people looking for help, Jared heard from a lot of people who want to

pitch in as what he calls patient advocates, folks who can help other people apply for financial

assistance. And some of them have already tested Jared's advice for themselves.

A young kid, he's like 20 years old, saw us on TikTok, followed the steps, filled out the paperwork,

and he got $108,000 medical bill completely waived for his mom. And so he reached out to me and

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