[labdude]

As Cade knows, it can become a way for the people in charge to get some cash.
It should be a way to help assure that a tech in a given field is competent. No problem there with me. If required to become a CDT, I would do it.
Still, when something becomes regulated, it always seems to be that to much money is involved. If not at first, then later on. It should not be oppressive, tough thing to do. When bucks are involved, it gets messy.
Then you can not go into the trade, or profesion, without it.
Broken system??? More like a growing system.
No time to fix it?? That's right. I'm very busy.
Denial???
Those 2 questions are like..."Have you stopped beating your wife??".

Stop with the BS about who is the better tech.
For as long as I have been in the business, the main thing I here is..."if my work is not good enough in some way, the market will decide". " I don't need to be "certified" by anyone. I know my work is good.
I heard that from the guy I worked for and many other lab owners in L.A.
You want to fix it?? Go ahead. I am around. I may or may not have time.

How about while your at it, you fix the issue of GPs pretending to be Orthodontists, because they can't by law call themselves Orthodontists??