Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford Health Policy
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Forum on Contemporary Europe
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
People of CHP/PCOR
MagnifyVictor R. Fuchs, MA, PhD
Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, Emeritus; FSI Senior Fellow and CHP/PCOR Core Faculty MemberNational Bureau of Economic Research
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-8715
Research Interests
universal health coverage; factors determining healthcare spending, especially the role of medical innovations, physician behavior, financial incentives and organizational structure; determinants of health, especially medical innovations, social and physical environments, socioeconomic factors and individual behaviors
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Working Papers
Journal Articles
- Letter to President Barack Obama urging four elements be included in health reform legislation to control costs
Alan M. Garber, Victor R. Fuchs, Kenneth J. Arrow
(2009)
Four Health Care Reforms for 2009
Victor R. Fuchs
New England Journal of Medicine vol. epub (2009)
Cost Shifting Does Not Reduce the Cost of Health Care
Victor R. Fuchs
Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 302, 9 (2009)
The Proposed Government Health Insurance Company -- No Substitute for Real Reform
Victor R. Fuchs
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 360, 22 (2009)- Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform
Kenneth J. Arrow, Auerbach A, Bertko J, Brownlee S, Casalino LP, Cooper J, Crosson J, Alain C. Enthoven, Falcone E, Feldman RC, Victor R. Fuchs, Alan M. Garber, Gold MR, Goldman D, Hadfield GK, Hall MA, Horwitz RI, Hooven M, Jacobson PD, Stoltzfus Jost T, Kotlikoff LJ, Levin J, Levine S, Levy R, Linscott K, Harold S. Luft, Marshal R, McFadden D, Mechanic D, Meltzer D, Newhouse JP, Noll RG, Pietzsch JB, Pizzo P, Reischauer RD, Rosenbaum S, Sage W, Schaeffer LD, Sheen E, Siilber BM, Skinner J, Stephen M. Shortell, Thier SO, Sean S. Tunis, Wulsin L, Yock P, Nun GB, Stirling Bryan, Luxenburg O Luxenburg O, van de Ven PMM
Annals of Internal Medicine vol. 150, 7 (2009) 
Reforming US Health Care: Key Considerations for the New Administration
Victor R. Fuchs
JAMA vol. 301, 9 (2009)- Health Reform: Getting The Essentials Right
Victor R. Fuchs
Health Affairs vol. 28, 2 (2009) - Health Care Reform -- Why So Much Talk and So Little Action?
Victor R. Fuchs
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 360, 3 (2008) 
Who Really Pays for Health Care? The Myth of "Shared Responsibility"
EJ Emanuel, Victor R. Fuchs
Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 299, 9 (2008)
Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future
Alain C. Enthoven, Victor R. Fuchs
Health Affairs vol. 25, 6 (2006)
Health Care Reform: Why? What? When?
Victor R. Fuchs, Ezekiel Emanuel
Health Affairs vol. 24, 6 (2005)
Health Care Expenditures Reexamined
Victor R. Fuchs
Annals of Internal Medicine vol. 143, 1 (2005)
Health Care Vouchers - A Proposal for Universal Coverage
Ezekiel Emanuel, Victor R. Fuchs
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 352, 12 (2005)
More variation in use of care, more flat-of-the-curve medicine
Victor R. Fuchs
Health Affairs (2004)
Reflections on the socio-economic correlates of health
Victor R. Fuchs
Journal of Health Economics vol. 23, 4 (2004)
Floridian Exceptionalism
Victor R. Fuchs
Health Affairs (2003)- Medical Innovation: Promise and Pitfalls
Victor R. Fuchs, Alan M. Garber
Brookings Review (2003) 
Air Pollution and Medical Care Use by Older Americans: A Cross-Area Analysis
Victor R. Fuchs, SR Frank
Health Affairs vol. 21, 6 (2002)
What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States?
Victor R. Fuchs
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 346, 23 (2002)- Reflections on Economic Research and Public Policy
Victor R. Fuchs, Victor R. Fuchs
The American Economist (2002) - Comment: Health Policy
Victor R. Fuchs
Commentary on "Health Policy and Tobacco Policy" by David Cutler and Jon Gruber. In American Economic Policies in the 1990s, edited by Jeffrey Frankel and Peter Orsag. MIT Press (2002) 
Physicians' Views of the Relative Importance of Thirty Medical Innovations
Victor R. Fuchs
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Economics, Values, and Health Care Reform
Victor R. Fuchs
The American Economic Review vol. 86, 1 (1996)
What Every Philosopher Should Know About Health Economics
Victor R. Fuchs
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society vol. 140, 2 (1996)- Expanding Role of Technology Assessment in Health Policy, The
Alan M. Garber, Victor R. Fuchs
Stanford Law & Policy Review vol. 3 (1991) 
New Technology Assessment, The
Victor R. Fuchs, Alan M. Garber
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 323 (1990)
Case Mix, Costs, and Outcomes: Differences between Faculty and Community Services in a University Hospital
Alan M. Garber, Victor R. Fuchs, J.F. Silverman
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 310 (1984)
Books & Book Chapters
Financial Problems of the Elderly: Holistic View, The
Victor R. Fuchs
Johns Hopkins Press in "Policies for an Aging Society: Confronting the Economic and Political Challenges", edited by Stuart B Altman and David Shactman (2002)
Eli Ginzberg: Man of Many Parts
Victor R. Fuchs
Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, NJ) in "Eli Ginzberg: The Economist as a Public Intellectual", edited by Louis Horowitz (2002)
Provide, Provide: The Economics of Aging
Victor R. Fuchs
University of Chicago Press in "Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers", Thomas R. Saving and Andrew Rettenmaier, Eds. (1999)
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
Victor R. Fuchs
World Scientific Publishing Company Pte. Ltd. (1998)
Future of Health Policy, The
Victor R. Fuchs
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1993)
Health Economy, The
Victor R. Fuchs
Harvard University Press (1986)
How We Live
Victor R. Fuchs
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1983)
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