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| + | Denise Bode has been lobbying Congress since she was 13,karen millen outlet. Okla,Toms Shoes Sale. Young Democrats chapterThat’s when she learned girls could not be pages in the House or Senate Upon returning to Bartlesville she commissioned her father to help write a petition to change those rulesThat letter eventually made its way to then-House Speaker John W McCormack (D-Mass) and ultimately helped change the rules to permit girls as pages“A lot of kids my age ― particularly girls ― it was the era when women were more and more thinking ‘Well why shouldn’t I be treated more equally’ ” Bode saidIt was that trailblazing effort that set Bode’s professional life in motion“That really gave me the bug” she said “I realized after that that I really wasn’t ― really wasn’t good or as happy as an observer I was much happier as a doer And it sort of carried through in every phase of my life”Growing up in northeastern Oklahoma the oil-and-gas industry was already pervasive in her lifeBode’s maternal grandfather fell to his death from an oil rig Phillips Petroleum the lifeblood of that region employed Bode’s father in its tax department“They took care of the community and did a lot for the community and so [I] had a very positive impression of the oil-and-gas industry as a result of growing up there” Bode said of PhillipsBoth of Bode’s parents managed balance sheets for local businesses with her mother keeping the finances of grocery stores and the local Kawasaki dealership in order In the summer Bode would assist her parents by completing tax returns for those businesses“I really saw how tax policy influenced everything” Bode said noting how crucial tax and rate incentives are in fostering energy developmentShe translated those summers in the family trade into a master’s of law in taxation from Georgetown Shortly after completing her degree Bode was presented with a choice: become a tax partner in a new law firm or join then-Sen David Boren’s (D-Okla) Senate Finance Committee staff as tax counselBode decided to join Boren’s staff in part because of the history she shared with the senatorAs a college student Bode and her future husband won a lawsuit against the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents The regents were attempting to impose a tuition increase on veteran students even though the state constitution outlawed such a move without approval from the LegislatureBoren was in his first term as Oklahoma governor at the time Impressed by Bode and her lawsuit which she eventually won Boren hired her to work in the governor’s officeBode’s second stint on Boren’s staff was on the Senate Finance Committee the same panel she is now lobbying to secure an extension for a wind-energy tax incentiveThe wind production tax credit is set to expire Dec 31 It credits wind power producers 22 cents per kilowatt-hour The Senate Finance Committee passed it in August in a $205 billion tax extenders package which has yet to be called for a voteExtending the incentive one year would cost about $5 billion while leveraging $15 billion in investmentThe incentive has been credited with galvanizing the wind energy industry But its future is in jeopardy because some fiscal conservatives believe the federal government needs to retain the tax revenues to help close the deficitCalls for a phase-out of the credit have been growing The credit’s supporters say Congress should extend the incentive for one year and that the phase-out must be part of tax-code reform discussions expected to occur next yearBode said she is ready to have those debates and that the wind association’s goal has always been gradual elimination Still she said the targeting of wind is disingenuous considering the provisions other energy industries getBode said what she wants from Congress and the president is “some certainty” that there’s going to be “parity in energy policy so that the people we compete with don’t have tax incentives or provisions that put us on an unlevel playing field”Wind energy never used to be a partisan issue Bode said That divisiveness started with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and continued with the success of the wind incentive she saidAt the time natural-gas producers were gearing up to go after coal’s market share in the electricity-generating sector That rattled a formerly all-inclusive cross-sector energy policymaking atmosphere turning it into a survival-of-the-fittest arenaOn top of that wind energy started scaling up to take a larger bite out of coal’s market share A mainstay since 1992 the wind incentive started drawing the manufacturing base and driving costs down and states were implementing renewable electricity standards that buoyed installations“A majority of the [wind] energy is in Republican districts But when they started chanting ‘Drill baby drill’ and that became the mantra it kind of devolved into if the Democrats and the president are for it then the Republicans are against it And if Republicans are for it Democrats are against it And so we’re all kind of going ‘What This is not a partisan thing’ ” Bode saidSo Bode is left navigating the tension points between the political parties as Dec 31 steadily approachesFor the moment the action rests with President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) as they work on a bargain to avoid deep automatic spending cuts and income tax increases scheduled for Jan 1Such tensions keep Bode busy and draw attention to the fact that she is a woman in a male-dominated energy and lobbying world It’s a position that comes with its own set of challengesShe said it “requires you to be nuanced because if you’re too aggressive folks can use the ‘B’-word with you If you’re not assertive enough well are you a wuss Are you a girl It’s all about balance and nuance and again being assertive being pragmatic but never losing your optimism or passion”Losing optimism or passion is certainly not Bode’s problem She’s cultivated both since at least age 13 and she’s ready Her character and her skills are put to the test on a daily basis“It became clear when I was offered this job 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95 percent go off without a hitch What it does suggest to the surgeon writer and Harvard professor Atul Gawande is that hospitals now see little reason to invest in technologies that would reduce complications when the only prize at the end would be lower incomeThe JAMA study was born out of a joint project between the Boston Consulting Group and Gawande who were trying to bring a safe surgery checklist into more hospitals“Part of what we have been trying to unravel is why some of the simple quality control measures that we know work are very slow to penetrate” Gawande told me in an interview “This puts in perspective how weak the incentives are [to improve quality] Complications produced massively higher profits”Rosenberg explained “We started realizing that if hospitals were to implement the safe surgery checklist and reduce complications that paradoxically hospital profits would fall”This study looked to quantify how much exactly a hospital had to lose if it reduced its number of surgical complications It focused on claims data provided by a 12-hospital chain in the South The hospital treated 35394 patients for 12 common surgical procedures including appendectomies and coronary artery bypass Of those patients 1820 had complications ranging from an infection at the surgery site to cardiac arrestPatients who had complications had to spend more time in the hospital They stayed for an average of 14 days in the hospital compared to the three-day stays of surgical patients who experienced no glitchesThe surgical complications also generated tremendously higher contribution margins This is the amount a hospital nets on a surgery after discounting all the costs devoted to the individual patients such as the doctors or nurses who provided treatment This does not include the cost of facilities or specific equipment but as Princeton health policy economist Uwe Reinhardt writes in a commentary in the JAMA issue this is a particularly good metric to measure a hospital’s long-term viabilityWhen a surgical complication occurred the profit margin jumped from $16936 to $55953 For Medicare patients profits grew from $1880 to $3269“Most US hospitals treat patient populations primarily covered by Medicare or private payers and programs to reduce complications may worsen their near-term financial performance” the study’s authors contendedWhat’s more hospitals that do reduce complications don’t really get much of a reward at the end The savings accrue to Medicare or private insurers who don’t have to pay out another claim“Most of the value goes to the payer when most of the work is borne by the hospital” Rosenberg saidTo reset the incentives Gawande and Rosenberg advocate taking more aggressive steps to tether doctors’ payments to the quality of care they provide Right now of private market payments have nothing to do with valueThe additional money from complications is “a lot of money to part with unless what you’re doing is going to get rewarded and you have a financial incentive to install a quality control program” Gawande saidIf hospitals receive a set amount for every heart surgery they perform for example they suddenly have an incentive to reduce complications �� they know the extra medical spending will come out of their own budget“Only 53 percent of patients have a complication so we’re talking about 95 percent without that” Rosenberg said “It wouldn’t be crazy to think about paying a little bit more for the uncomplicated procedures and the hospital bears some of the risk if something goes wrong”Under that model better results do translate into higher payments��the exact opposite of the system we have right nowFor a patientDisplay the subject in casual attire with the exception of religious attire that is worn on a daily basis.<br> 2,some of it at peopl. and it was about toppling the U,Toms Outlet.” he said,“I’ve heard some fo,The number ratings on each lawmaker's page are from zero to 100 which is the scale used by most advocacy 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