Editor’s note: Este artículo está traducido al español.
Longtime Las Vegas resident Maria Yañez owed over $4,500 in medical bills spanning back nearly a decade — until recently.
In mid-November, Yañez received a letter pertaining to both bills one from a hospital stint in 2017 and another from a lumbar surgery and ambulance ride in 2019.
“When I received this letter, the first thing I thought was, ‘Oh, more bills,’” said Yañez, who spoke Spanish through a translator. “So I didn’t pay attention to it.”
Yañez, who was recently laid off from her job, said she didn’t take a closer look at the letter until she heard that a nonprofit had recently eliminated medical debt for…