GOP Senator Sued 700+ Patients Over Medical Debt

GOP Senator Sued 700+ Patients Over Medical Debt

The New York Times reports: It was Easter weekend in 2007 when a police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez’s home in rural Kansas. A doctor had filed a lawsuit against him and his wife over an unpaid $4,561 bill from her emergency hysterectomy three years earlier. They had missed a court date, and the … The post GOP Senator Sued 700+ Patients Over Medical Debt appeared first on Joe.My.God..

GOP senator who fought to repeal Obamacare built fortune suing patients who couldn't pay

Sen. Roger Marshall, the Kansas Republican who helped lead House Republicans' 2017 push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, spent decades building his medical career and personal wealth in part by suing patients who could not afford to pay their bills, according to new reporting.A New York Times analysis of Kansas court records found Marshall, before entering politics, practiced as an obstetrician-gynecologist and co-founded a Great Bend surgical…

Senator Sued 700 Patients for Debts and 81 Were Arrested

New York Times: “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, according to a New York Times analysis of Kansas court records.” […]

A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished. It was Easter weekend in 2007 when a police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez’s home in rural Kansas. A doctor had filed a lawsuit against him and his wife over … Source