# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-fuchs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:32:11.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-fuchs"
name: "Victor Fuchs"
slug: "victor-fuchs"
description: "Victor Robert Fuchs was an American health economist. He was known for his 1975 book Who Shall Live?, which detailed the consequences of rising health care costs in the United States."
tagline: "American health economist (1924–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-01-31"
deathDate: "2023-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.338733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/victor-fuchs"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فيكتور فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Fuchs"
    title: "Victor Fuchs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Fuchs"
    title: "Victor Fuchs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "ויקטור פוקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_(%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Фукс, Виктор (экономист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump