Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that wallet

of yours I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you make.

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That's where you go to save money each and every day coming up in a few minutes.

In today's Clark Rageous Moment there is a new underhanded rotten terrible practice that

is spreading among hospitals, taking advantage financially of people that are ill or wounded

in the midst of getting treatment often in a hospital emergency room.

I'm going to tell you what this crooked rotten terrible practice is so that you know how

to protect yourself and your wallet.

And later yet new stats out about what it costs to raise a child from age zero from birth

to age 18 and the number is pretty scary.

So right now I want to talk about something that is sneaking up on us so quickly but unfortunately

not quickly enough.

The number of people dying on our roads has been skyrocketing lately.

The number of accidents, enormous increase, injury rates up up up and the reason for

that unfortunate trifecta smartphones.

I think about how often I'm on the road and you see a car weaving around you and you

look over and you have about a 99.99% chance.

It's because they're looking at their phones.

People cannot take their eyes off their phones and whatever be or vibrate or whatever the

phone does, we're like trained like a trained animal that we immediately have to stop whatever

we're doing, including looking at what is happening on the roads to look at our phones.

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