I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab. So I think about this meme all the time. If you watch Breaking Bad it's going to make sense to you.

The meme goes something like Breaking Bad in Canada. Walter White gets diagnosed with cancer gets treatment.

The end.

If you watch the show, you'll get the joke.

The premise of breaking bad is that the main character,

Walter White, gets diagnosed with cancer, but can't afford treatment on his

teacher's salary so he picks up a side hustle of cooking and selling meth. It is crazy to be in the

United States we watched a show and we're like, yeah, that's an acceptable

storyline. I'm sorry, what? Are we so numb to how broken our health care

system is that we think it's normal for someone albeit a character on TV to have to sell meth

to receive life saving care. All right I know I came in a little hot there but it is something that I feel very very strongly about

nearly one in ten adults in the United States owe significant medical debt.

The total amount of medical debt nationwide is about $195 billion.

So that means if you fill SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles with random people off the street,

almost 7,000 of those people would be in medical debt.

Maybe you're that one in ten, and if you are or know someone who is,

here are three steps to help you manage or even cancel your medical debt.

Number one, fact check your hospital. cancel your

hospital and get an itemized bill.

I'm going to give you a stat that gets me as fired up as when I was talking about breaking bad.

Research shows that four and five medical bills

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