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The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Wisconsin has played an outsized role in the long fight for health care coverage for all Americans. UW-Madison economists John Commons and his students Arthur Altmeyer and Edwin Witte were pivotal to creating Social Security. FDR, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Altmeyer ...