Conclusion: cut more federal regulations. All across the board. They hurt more than they help.
according to the more in-depth article in this thread - http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3823498/posts - a bit in we see that
C.D.C. officials repeatedly said it would not be possible. “If you want to use your test as a screening tool, you would have to check with F.D.A.,” Gayle Langley, an officer at the C.D.C.’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, wrote back in an email on Feb. 16. But the F.D.A. could not offer the approval because the lab was not certified as a clinical laboratory under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months.
So the CDC said they had to get permission from the FDA, and the FDA couldn’t give it to them because of CMMS rules, they were not certified as the right kind of laboratory.
In other words, Medicaid/single payer health care system bureaucracy. This is what happens when costs and codes take over. This needs to be hung on the necks of anyone who advocates increased medicaid or single payer - every time, for the next two generations.