This week thousands of Kansans will get a Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes-style surprise. But instead of a knock on the door and a giant check, they’ll find a letter in the mail informing them that some past hospital or doctor bill has been paid off.
Somos Votantes Education Fund, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization focused on the Latino community and connected to the left-leaning voter group Somos Votantes, announced it has purchased more than $42 million in medical debt belonging to nearly 27,000 Kansans.
That was all of the medical debt available in Kansas through Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that raises donations to buy medical debt in bulk for pennies on the dollar and forgive it.
Melissa Morales, the…