In less than a week, voters in Kansas will go to the polls to decide who will represent them in the U.S. Senate. Their choice is between the incumbent finishing his first term in office after a career as an OB-GYN in rural Kansas and the pastor of a Protestant megachurch in Kansas City.

Last month, The New York Times waded into the race by publishing a piece that smeared Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) for the unspeakable crime of trying to collect unpaid medical invoices for his private practice. The story spun a doctor’s mundane efforts to stay afloat by simply seeking compensation for services provided as the callous persecution of the impoverished.

If the outlet genuinely cared about exposing the roots of American medical debt, it'd focus on the real perpetrators: big hospital systems, often composed of dozens of facilities that hide prices, gouge patients, all while exploiting loopholes in federal law to line their pockets.

USA Today did just that earlier this year, exposing how from 2010 to 2014, Virginia hospitals sued patients over 1 million times. Its reporting also found that tax-exempt hospitals, which get that privilege purportedly to support their charitable care, “accounted for over half the filings.”

In Colorado, UC Health similarly filed almost 13,000........

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