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Coming up in today's Clark Rage's moment, you know, people complain so much about what

health insurance costs, well guess why?

Because medical costs are out of control.

I'll share with you today's Clark Rage, a family that was charged almost $20,000 for

their baby to be seen but not treated at an emergency room.

And speaking of kids, coming up later, there's a new way you can stay in touch with young

children that does not involve giving them a smartphone but is a phenomenal way for

you as a parent to be able to communicate with your young child at any time.

I want to talk right now about something I've already had more than a dozen questions

about and so I want to address it straight on.

That is Amazon's offer to set you up in business to deliver packages for Amazon.

Amazon faces a real cost crunch that with Amazon Prime having so many members in the United

States who will order any old thing for free delivery now, Amazon's shipping costs have

skyrocketed and they're spending a fortune on UPS FedEx and the Postal Service.

So Amazon now in order to try to reduce those expenses is offering to set up people as

Amazon delivery services where they lend you the money essentially to have your own delivery

vehicles and you deliver for them at the prices that Amazon determines for you and you

are essentially an Amazon non-employee, a captive of Amazon.

Amazon says that if you have 20 to 40 vehicles out there delivering that you could make profits

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