A roundup of some of the content published today at Brookings.
- Preserving Ukraine’s independence. Steven Pifer, Strobe Talbott, and other experts argue for greater U.S. leadership in ending the conflict in Ukraine and Russian involvement in the region.
- Medicare physician payment reform and the SGR. Keith Fontenot, Caitlin Brandt, and Mark McClellan offer a primer on Medicare’s “Sustainable Growth Rate” (SGR), a key target or Medicare physician reform payment.
- Cost of education testing. Matt Chingos argues that “spending on testing is barely a drop in the bucket of a public education system that spends over $600 billion per year.”
- Obama’s precision medicine initiative. Greg Daniel and Morgan Romine comment on why Obama’s announcement of a $215 million investment for personalized medicine programs is important.
- Target malware kingpins. Richard Bejtlich explains why governments should equip and authorize their law enforcement communities to target and mitigate criminal malware writers.
- Russian nukes in Crimea? Steven Pifer offers recommendations on how the U.S. should respond to the possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons to Crimea.
- How Americans see the Middle East. Shibley Telhami and Katayoun Kishi discuss their polling data on how Americans view issues in Middle East policy.
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Brookings Today, 2/2/15
February 2, 2015