insurance companies negotiate directly with big pharma. keep your eye on big pharma and health care s labor numbers. because if they don t get what they want, they re going to start talking about sweating employees, laying people off. they re already dealing with a shortage. but they re one of the biggest employers in the united states. and they re going to have tremendous leverage. keep that in mind. now, let s dig deeper and you ll see how eiit s all connected. you take the truck drivers we need to get the packages from the ships to your house. burnout. huge problem for years. we were 60,000 drivers short before covid. that number could as well to 100,000 in less than two years. across the spectrum, when you look look at why people are quitting, money plays a role, but the far bigger reason is people don t feel valued. something may have changed during covid. either they were overworked to the point where they couldn t bear it, or they had time to think and process what mattered to t
they stopped months ago. and they brought most people to minimum wage. that s hardly easy street, that s hardly retirement money. we learned more about the why when we go from how many are gone to who they are. we re talking mostly about people who work in food, retail, and health care. the last one, we re talking 524,000 since february. now, one of the side notes in this big debate about letting insurance companies negotiate directly with big pharma. keep your eye on big pharma and health care s labor numbers. because if they don t get what they want, they re going to start talking about sweating employees, laying people off. they re already dealing with a shortage. but they re one of the biggest employers in the united states. and they re going to have