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So tired of hearing "VR is here to stay, and get used to it, and this is the going rate." A plain chest x-ray cost is now over $800, and they send it off site to be read. A sleep study is over $5000. There are multiple hidden ways of price gouging, yet this profession is being used for others to profit. Who is regulating all of this as you have absolutely no recourse even as a patient. VR has eliminated MTs, yet the radiologists benefit because they can read twice as fast and make more money on top of their high-ended salary and contracts to being with, yet we are told you can go faster, (only in theory), but then our pay is cut and production quota doubled. It is all nonsense and the wrongs continue. VR should be a helpful tool for our profession also, not just for others to take advantage. This would seem to be all unfair labor practices. Things need to change and someone in Washington needs to follow the money trail.