In America, hospital bills strike terror into the hearts of most of us and often ruin people’s lives and futures. So it seems ridiculous to think that the process of creating medical bills is so absurdly arbitrary that a single sentence could make large chunks of them disappear. However, that’s precisely what one mom recently learned. Health policy research organization KFF estimates that as many as 100 million Americans carry medical debt, and an investigation by NPR found that the problem is not only worsening, but it’s also the result of systematic efforts by our for-profit healthcare industry. Given how terrifying this is, TikToker Annie Muscato’s recent experience is downright counterintuitive because asking one simple question made a giant chunk of her bill disappear. A mom got her hospital bills lowered by $3,000 using a trick she learned from a debt collector. After giving birth, Muscato received medical bills that were inaccurate by thousands of dollars. The only reason she even noticed the discrepancy is because she did a thing all too many of us refrain from doing: she opened …