Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients; 81 Were Arrested, NYT Reports
"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."
Amy and a Cat153Kansan here. He has done nothing for our state. He’s a rubber stamp on Trump’s crazy agenda. He lives in Florida and charges Kansans for his travels. Before taking office, his policies shut down rural hospitals and now women don’t have adequate access to pregnancy or birth services in many parts.
poivrotfarci.bsky.social107An 8 month pregnant woman with a 2 year old was arrested for past C-section bill. Remind us in what other wealthy countries do poor people go to jail because they can't afford child delivery.
Anu40Running a doctor’s office like a mafia shakedown is a hell of a way to treat sick people.
M. Kelly40I really don't like Republicans.
Debby33 ❌ 👑33Zero surprise MILLIONS of Americans are drowning in health care debt Remember, the MAHA "health care plan" is soft eugenics Literally
Elegant25He wasn't acting as a healer; he was a debt collector with a medical degree. Having someone so devoid of human empathy in the Senate is an absolute disgrace.
hannahwheel.bsky.social109a man who brags about delivering babies but then sues their moms over shit like a $129 postpartum visit fee..... gtfo
Be Your Own Light4How is seeking to put a patient in prison for a $130 debt consistent with his Hypocratic Oath? This is one evil MF who should NOT be in Congress and who should lose his medical license.
Dave Calder4I wonder how many times this type of charge went unchallenged?
eperkin.bsky.social3Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with an insurance system. Most Reform Party voters could not afford the premiums. People in the UK do not rattle tins outside supermarkets to pay for treatment or get arrested for medical debt. Scum CEOs profit from our pain and trauma. Boo hoo hoo
MantaHunk 🌎🏳️🌈☮️🟧31800s DEBTOR'S PRISON. Most western civilized countries have universal Healthcare. We have debtor's prison. If you can't pay your medical bills, you go to prison. Just ask Republican Marshall running for reelection. GOP is the party of cruelty, death and destruction.
🐝RCMhere3Can't blame some1 waiting to get paid. 🤷♀️ Imagine how much better this situation could have been if we had a govt program for non profit health insurance? The doctor would be paid for medical services required. And the patient would have peace of mind. 4-PROFIT HEALTH INSURANCE is the problem.
Mathew Helman2GOP Sen. Roger Marshall is a heartless monster who hates moms & babies. Roger Marshall's #KSSen opponent in November is @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social : hamiltonforkansas.com #Kansas #ksleg #ksgov #kspol @kansasdems.bsky.social
Tom Regan2I'm going to say this again. I'm Canadian. i recently broke my hip.My wife and daughter had quite serious medial issue recently.We received excellent care.I DIDN'T PAY A CENT, NOT A SINGLE PENNY. Tell me again why the US doedsn't have universal health care.
Peach's Mom ❌👑2What is not mentioned in the headline is that Roger Marshall was an OBGYN, and his patients were pregnant women and new mothers.
Neely Ashmun2What a fucking fucker. When my friend, a Viet Nam vet, died of liver cancer, I took all the bills and called accounting departments to tell them there was no money to pay them. 80% forgave the debt. It was the fancy doctor conglomerates that were assholes about it.
"this republican politician is a total piece of shit" is like a dog bites man story at this point www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
August163People who only read the headline should know Roger Marshall was an OBGYN. His patients were pregnant women and new mothers.
Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain109Still remains incredible that Rick Scott being the perpetrator of the single largest Medicare fraud in American history got absolutely no attention and made absolutely no difference to his ascent to the highest offices in *Florida* of all places.
kevinmcnamee.bsky.social53It’s almost as if this party attracts garbage people like flies to a corpse. 
Desarrayed42how much did Roger Marshall pay lawyers to try to squeeze blood from a stone? "Some facing lawsuits were new mothers with outstanding bills from their deliveries. Most lived in Barton County, a rural area with above-average uninsured and poverty rates."
Steven D. Schroeder32Suing your patients who make $50,000 per year, when you make $500,000+ per year, is a choice.
Matthew 🦖27It's somewhat impressive how Republican voters just don't care how awful the people they vote for are. It's been getting worse for a pretty long time now. All that seems to matter is that they are bigots.
🧵 Adam Hamilton supports choice. His opponent, Roger Marshall, the incumbent senator from KS, is an anti-choice ob-gyn who sued hundreds of patients for lare payments, having dozens arrested, garnishing pay, and charging 18% interest on debt. Marshall is full Trumper. Vote blue, KS!
DrDinD.bsky.social41"The doctor who sued the couple was Roger Marshall, now a senator from Kansas. Mr. Marshall, a Republican who is seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills during his decades-long career as an obstetrician-gynecologist, ...
LT39The trump base is the republican base, they are nazis not Americans and the MAGA-controlled Supreme Court, has become so corrupted by rank partisanship as to forfeit its legitimacy. End the republicans.
Katakateri7Earlier in his career, Marshall himself performed an abortion. "It was medically necessary," he said.
Resist!6This is a no brainer, Kansas. Vote the corrupt Marshall out.
makaleka6in my long checkered career in the medical profession, I've learned that many ob-gyn really don't like women....Marshall seems to be one of them
Gregg5Yet, no doctor is willing to challenge Trump and help their patients. Do no harm to your paycheck.
LT9The trump base is the republican base, they are nazis not Americans and the MAGA-controlled Supreme Court, has become so corrupted by rank partisanship as to forfeit its legitimacy. End the republicans.
🍷HoneyLips🍷 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🦋6#Kansas Vote for Adam Hamilton
CATPOTUS4There is a difference between Good & Evil It now can be voted on in Kansas CATPOTUS 09.08.2026 ....
A crazy article, surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
jakerome12Probably the median GOP Senator in every respect. Rotten to the core. Here’s one abusing the law to cause new mothers to be arrested. Not sure if that’s better or worse than so many of his brethren breaking the law.
Laura Chapin10This is AN ABORTION. "Two said that the bills Mr. Marshall pursued in court stemmed from late miscarriages that required surgery." A miscarriage is a spontanous abortion. It appears anti-abortion ObGyn Dr Roger Marshall performed later abortions and then sued people who struggled to pay for them.
Melina7This guy is an evil piece of shit. Unpaid bills are write-offs, which any Dr with their own practice needs. This was just evil for no reason. Its sort of like Trump's policies, actually. I don't see how any of this would increase payment of old bills.
quin664.bsky.social6Greed has no limits. Empathy has no place in Marshall world. Re the article: the guy was making three quarters of a million a year and has a multi million dollar net worth and he's suing people who owe him $129? That's beyond disgusting. I'm all for paying doctors decent wages but...
RestlessNative3Here's an article on Republican Senator Roger Marshall with no paywall: newrepublic.com/post/215156/...
bbsubs.bsky.social3In a crowded field, Marshall has to rank as one the biggest nutjobs in the Senate.
Daniel Lenski5Is there any chance that Kansas will actually vote for a Democrat to occupy Marshall's seat in November? Another really bad headline for him that I just learned about 👇
Clean Observer4His opponent is a pastor whose church is the largest provider of volunteers to kids elementary schools in Kansas, because they value service and think kids should learn how to read.
Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus4Let’s do better. Kick the GOP out.
DC Cassandra2American runs on Dunkin, but the GOP runs on grift and abuse of power.
“The Times interviewed 8 people Mr. Marshall sued between 2003 &2015. Most described themselves as living paycheck to paycheck, often deciding between paying medical bills or buying groceries. Two said that the bills Mr. Marshall pursued in court stemmed from late miscarriages that required surgery”
Kathleen Bachynski73“Ms. Zimmerman is among 81 patients whose court records indicate that an arrest occurred. Their debts ranged from $114 to $4,683. In some cases, efforts to collect a debt would continue for over a decade and lasted into Mr. Marshall’s congressional career.”
Deborah Sharp6Is Sen. Marshall "working for the people?" I think not.
Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice4Gift link, if you want more details about this cruel and greedy individual who now supposedly works for the people of Kansas. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Myra Batchelder2Hoping Kansas elects Democrat Adam Hamilton to the Senate this November instead of Marshall! hamiltonforkansas.com
Kevin M. Kruse508Roger Marshall might just seem like a nice dumb guy, but don’t be fooled — he’s an evil dumb guy.
Miranda Yaver33Reminder: Doctors are second only to nurses in the extent to which Americans trust them. Patients aren't looking to screw their health care providers. Of course, everyone needs to make ends meet, but patients being unable to pay medical bills is a tragedy that demands policy change, not lawsuits.
Jason Rosenbaum11Do I think Democrats will win Kansas? Probably not. But one of the reasons I've been paying attention to it is a) Hamilton is a gold star recruit and b) Marshall is just not a great candidate.
Be Your Own Light6Because in his mind the "Do No Harm" Hippocratic Oath includes putting his patients in prison... More like a Hypocritical Oath in his case...
Pamela Fiore... and live alone in the bee-loud glade6How about this monstrous creature in human form
Bruce Wilson6A thoroughly average Republican sociopath who loves to crush the poor under his boot heel.
(Wes)tern democracy👨🏻🗳️🌐5Setting aside the general grotesqueness of the story, and further setting aside the potential political ramifications, a substantive (naive?) question of practice: Is this common? For practitioners? Suing patients individually over debt? I’m just stunned by every word & not sure if I should be?
Luna2"The unpaid bills ranged from several thousand dollars to as little as $101." I feel like it needs to be stressed, there's no way this about recouping costs for Roger Marshall or Heartland Regional OBGYN. This is about power & punishing poor people, especially poor women.
DogDadBod2The United States is a country that encourages, rewards and extolls exploitation and abuse by any means, but especially through financial vampirism.
Terrific NY Times story about how Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, a physician, got poor people thrown in jail after they couldn’t pay medical bills. His spokeswoman says: “Judges issue warrants when people repeatedly miss court dates, not doctors.” But Marshall’s lawyers asked judges for arrest warrants.
Mark Jacob93First-time candidate Adam Hamilton is Marshall's opponent in the Kansas Senate race.
kellermel.bsky.social14Marshall is also one of the 6 senators who voted to not certify the election on Jan. 6.
pka767Like many Republican politicians, Marshall is a corrupt and sinister person. He robs from the poor to benefit the wealthy and himself. No wonder that he admires Trump so much. VOTE HIM OUT!
Alicia2Thank you for the 🎁 article. This POS physician should lose his license.
Driver91How else was Marshall supposed to pay for his fourth vacation home and buy a larger boat?
The Shumater1Hippocratic Oath (Revised): "I will remember that there is business to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding are only for those who pay for it."
Matt Gaetz Forehead27He also got away with running over his neighbor. www.kansas.com/news/politic...
Ginger Snap and Cam 🖖5never underestimate the depths of Republican cruelty
Moxie Meow2Republicans should not be allowed to practice medicine. No Republican doctors, no Republican nurses, not even a Republican doula. They lack the requiste empathy. No more Nazi doctors. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Ethan Harfenist2It’s such a mindfuck that a paper can have so many talented reporters yet run sympathetic stories on white supremacists at the same time. And also have an absolutely insane op-ed section. Sign o’ the times (pun 100% intended).
Senator Roger Marshall is up for re-election (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Don Moynihan133One woman, who had no health insurance, was arrested three times at the orders of Senator Marshall for C-section bill. She was home with her 2-year-old, and eight months pregnant for the first arrest. “I asked them quietly: Can you not handcuff me in front of my daughter?”
WhatSaraSaid13As the policy director for an abortion clinic in Kansas, all I can say is, no surprises here, but: Stay angry There are many good & decent clinicians in the state. Also, we have Senator Roger Marshall, who was surprised a hospital in a rural county had to treat uninsured workers with no insurance.
frostellicus4I’m sure this has been answered but doesn’t the constitution prohibit debtors prisons?
Dog Columbo3This is why we don't have universal healthcare. That $4,500 hysterectomy would be a lot cheaper if we had some form of universal healthcare. Money is a bad reason to become a doctor.
niraliberalism1Marshall is the microeconomist to Rick Scott’s macro
Micah255it's basically impossible to not be a huge asshole, personally, if you work in republican politics
Kevin120as a debt defense lawyer my only thought is wait, does Kansas judgment enforcement procedure not provide for bank levies and wage garnishments on default?
Michael Anderson5Jesus Christ this is so fucking ghoulish
The thing about the Roger Marshall story is that women getting arrested because they can’t afford their obgyn is a choice made by Congress. Most other rich countries have made a different choice.
Steven T. Dennis112You may remember that Jon Kyl, then the No. 2 Republican, complained that the ACA covered childbirth, because he personally wasn’t going to have a baby and neither was his (old) wife and therefore didn’t need the coverage. And Debbie Stabenow rebuked him by saying, essentially, your momma did.
Joseph Britt10Well, yes: by members of Congress like Roger Marshall. Seems like a good reason for Kansas to get rid of him.
Matt Calcara9Um, it's also a choice that Roger Marshall actively made, because he is a scumbag. Lots of ob/gyns write off losses from folks who can't pay. This is a guy who helped drive his town's non-profit hospital out of business to destroy the competition for his for-profit hospital. He's evil, man.
Roger Marshall is a disgrace to the Senate and to Kansas. He does not belong in public life. A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
jgisslen.bsky.social8If you’ve got a problem with Robert Marshall, you need to check out Sunshine State Voldemort (Rick Scott). medicarefraudsenator.com
John Shea 🍀4We just need to make sure that we vote 🗳️ them all out in November.
Mark Kassof2Another Trump puppet Senator who doesn’t deserve another term. Just like Mike Rodgers is gonna be if we elect him here in Michigan.
factsmatter4all.bsky.social2Every Republican in Congress is a disgrace. None of those sociopaths belong in public life.
shamrockchickens.bsky.social1The real crime is that this man has been allowed to practice medicine!
ie68.bsky.social1You have to admit though, he has the proper moral compass for the modern day gop
Kansas gets to choose in its Senate race between a Methodist pastor whose congregation donates tens of millions to help the local poor, and an incumbent who sues vulnerable people into the jailhouse to recover 18 percent interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Eric Weinberger6In MAGA's upside-down America (which starts with the name MAGA), the usurer usually wins
Gandolf the Grey5We have a serious morality crisis in this country.
Hate to Badger You...4Here's a link to the NYT article with the paywall removed: archive.ph/e9C5T
Patrick3They’re going to vote for the loan shark over the pastor while claiming to be huge supporters of family values, aren’t they? 😐
Ryan Marino, MD113Hear me out - Have Americans tried NOT electing people who literally hate them and who want to steal their money?
Myra Batchelder8Kansas, you have an important Senate race coming up! Vote for Democrat Adam Hamilton!
Aine Yore, MD 🏳️⚧️🇮🇪6I've done the billing for a medical practice. It sucks to have that sort of an adversarial process where you have to send a patient to collections, etc. Suing them is very much not a normal part of the process. Having them arrested is next level evil shit.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), who was an ob-gyn doc, reportedly sued more than 700 of his patients and had more than 80 of them arrested for failing to pay bills from his medical office www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Sheesh10How do you get arrested for not paying a bill—we’re not living in Victorian England, FFS?!
AMPTsuper9The good people of Kansas have an option: Democrat Adam Hamilton. "Hamilton describes himself as a centrist, running partly on “bringing people together.” His congregation, he notes, is nearly evenly split between Democrats, Republicans and independents." apnews.com/article/sena...
informationbank.bsky.social9His bigger problem is that he doesn't even live in Kansas, but rather has his main residence in FL. Adam Hamilton, his opponent, is an awesome candidate!
DiscoPriest 🌱6And presumably his patients are all women.
Kat K 🐾🐾4Did someone bring back debtor’s prison from 100 years ago?
Blobert v3.03But they’re totally not anti-women, right?
Kevin M. Kruse438Well, it’s a good thing he’s not facing re-election in a tough climate for Republicans with a charismatic minister as his Democratic opponent. I’m sure he’ll be fine!
leigh2this is what Nigel Farage wants for the United Kingdom
The Fifth Dentist2The whole concept of jailing people for not paying their debts is idiotic -- imprisoned people can't generate income. There's a reason we moved away from that. Republicans are just vindictive assholes.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) sued hundreds of patients and had dozens arrested for failing to pay bills from his medical office, The New York Times reported Monday. But they elected him as Senator, though.🤦🏽♀️ www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
RoseMarie4Marshall worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist before coming to Congress in 2017. He’s now in a surprisingly competitive race for reelection against megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton. The Times analyzed court records showing Marshall sued more than 700 patients over unpaid bills. (cont.)
sue19721954.bsky.social1Lock him up he’s a criminal stomping on women’s lives and rights
rickytikkitavi.bsky.social1Rick Scott should be his cellmate.
“I had to choose whether I’d pay my electricity or pay $50 to a doctor who didn’t need it.” --Meischa Zimmerman, arrested three times for missed court dates related to an outstanding C-section bill from Kansas senate candidate Dr. Roger Marshall. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Mindcite💥8Hippocrates: "Practice two things in your dealings with disease: Either help or do not harm the patient." Dr. Roger Marshall's patient while being arrested because of an outstanding C-Section bill: "Can you not handcuff me in front of my daughter?"
I Resist Fascist Trump4Roger Marshall must be voted out !!! KS cannot be represented by such a heartless con man.
