"Victor Robert Fuchs" (born 1924) is an American health economist. He has been called "the dean of health economists" by New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt.

He is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor at Stanford University, emeritus. Since 1962, he has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is the co-director of the FRESH-Thinking Project, CASBS, at Stanford University. Fuchs was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982, and to the American Philosophical Society in 1990. In 1995, he served as president of the American Economic Association.

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When people are spending their own money, they will tend to use less care than if somebody else is paying for it. But the size of that effect is going to be much less than what the advocates claim.

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These accounts are mostly just another tax shelter for high-income people. I don't see them solving the significant health problems of our time.

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