Marshall cuts rogue ad on medical debt lawsuits

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) released a new campaign ad this past weekend responding to attacks toward him over his medical debt lawsuits against former patients, reportedly bucking his campaign team’s guidance.

“When I practiced as a small-town OB doc [obstetrician], often serving as the only OB in the middle of 40,000 people, my wife and I decided to take care of everyone, regardless of their ability to pay,” Marshall, dressed in a red button-up shirt while resting on a wooden fence, said in the minute-long ad.

“We wrote off hundreds of bills monthly, and one of every five patients received precare,” he continued. “Now, to ensure that 40,000 Kansans would still have access to care, we did have to keep the lights on. So we occasionally handed some accounts over to a collection agency, just like nearly every private medical practice does.”

Marshall said Kansas’s bill of rights “ensures that no one can go to prison because of indebtedness, and I would never wish that on any patient.”

He added that his “involvement in any patients’ account ended the minute it was turned over to an outside agency” and that he never called for anyone’s........

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