A challenge to coordinating services that balance social determinants of health—like housing, food security, and transportation—with physical and mental health is the so-called "wrong pockets problem." Stuart Butler and Nehath Sheriff explain that barrier and a new bill that could help overcome it.
The recently-signed American Rescue Plan includes $86 billion to save distressed multiemployer pensions and thereby the retirement funds of some 1.5 million workers. Opponents of the provision argue it could lead to a pension crisis, but Josh Gotbaum says their claims don't hold up.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's new mandate to consider housing prices in monetary policy decisions has drawn attention—and some raised eyebrows—from the rest of the world's central bankers. Tyler Powell and David Wessel examine the decision.
The global macroeconomic consequences of changes in climate risk.Roshen Fernando, Weifeng Liu, and Warwick J. McKibbin explore three areas of macroeconomic climate risk: physical risks of changing climate, transition risks of climate-related policies, and financial risks of markets concerned about the future.
Improving Medicare's treatment of advanced imaging. This new white paper from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy examines a "tumultuous" 20 years of Medicare policies on payment for imaging services like MRIs, CAT scans, and nuclear scans, and provides recommendations for improving policies going forward.
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