Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Jim Moody, Wisconsin congressman who proposed single-payer health care, dies at 83
Source: Washington Post
Jim Moody, Wisconsin congressman who proposed single-payer health care, dies at 83
By Matt Schudel March 29
Jim Moody, a onetime college professor who served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin and sponsored a bill in 1991 to establish single-payer universal health-care coverage, died March 22 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 83.
The cause was a nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage, said his wife, Janice Boettcher Moody.
Early in his career, Dr. Moody lived overseas while working for an international humanitarian organization and the Peace Corps. He later became a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
He served in both houses of the Wisconsin state legislature before he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1982 as a Democrat. During his campaign, he walked door to door in his Milwaukee district. Estimates of the number of houses he visited ranged from 13,000 to 40,000.
-snip-
By Matt Schudel March 29
Jim Moody, a onetime college professor who served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin and sponsored a bill in 1991 to establish single-payer universal health-care coverage, died March 22 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 83.
The cause was a nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage, said his wife, Janice Boettcher Moody.
Early in his career, Dr. Moody lived overseas while working for an international humanitarian organization and the Peace Corps. He later became a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
He served in both houses of the Wisconsin state legislature before he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1982 as a Democrat. During his campaign, he walked door to door in his Milwaukee district. Estimates of the number of houses he visited ranged from 13,000 to 40,000.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-moody-wisconsin-congressman-who-proposed-single-payer-health-care-dies-at-83/2019/03/29/de9b8d88-518d-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html
