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Victor Fuchs, pioneer of health care economics, has died | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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Victor Fuchs, a longtime Stanford economist and a pioneer in the study of health care as a matter of costs versus benefits, has died. He was 99. Fuchs passed away peacefully in his longtime home on Stanford’s campus on Sept. 16. His death comes just before the scheduled release of a new edition of his seminal book, Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice (World Scientific). The book, which has never gone out of print since it was first published in 1974, has been required reading for generations of doctors and health policymakers. Over the course of 70 years, Fuchs produced more than 200 research papers and wrote or edited 17 books. He worked doggedly to illuminate problems in — and propose policy fixes to — the U.S. health care system, where costs per person have long been the highest in the world despite middling outcomes. Critical of one-off solutions, Fuchs long advocated for radical fixes, notably the need for universal health care. "Victor Fuchs was a towering figur

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