Britain Rescinds Plans for Added Privatization Intended to Help Cut Costs at the National Health Service

Some privatization of pathology and clinical laboratory testing is under discussion If there is one thing that the healthcare systems of the United States and the United Kingdom share in common, it is the respective budget crises engulfing the national governments of both countries. Each nation is struggling to come up with the funds necessary to pay for the ever-rising cost of healthcare. In both nations, pathologists and clinical laboratory managers are dealing with the consequences of...

Vermont Enacts Nation’s First Single-Payer Healthcare System Amid Controversy

Still not known is how pathologists and clinical laboratories will be paid for medical lab tests In classic cart-before-the-horse thinking, Vermont enacted a law to institute a single-payer universal-coverage healthcare system within the state, starting in 2017. However, this law does not specify how the new healthcare system will be funded. That is the next challenge for the Vermont legislature. Dark Daily suspects that anatomic pathology groups and clinical laboratories in the Green Mountain...
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