Agreed. Been saying this for the past 10 years. How serious are you? What can you bring to the table?
Off topic, but systematically speaking, pharmacist should own pharmacies. Not corporations. Corporations still our wealth, our prosperity, our autonomy, our opportunity to innovate, and most importantly our impact to provide patients with the care that they need and deserve. I understand that they broke the system to the point where it's very difficult to win, but I hope that someday, we deconstruct the systems they built, and we can win again. Pharmacist are the most accessible healthcare professional in every community, and are also the most under utilized because of corporate structure.
Leverage? Um. We have social media (linkedin, facebook, reddit, SDN, etc) and, more importantly licenses. Last time I checked, you need a (licensed) pharmacist to operate a pharmacy in all 50 states. Working conditions have been poor for the past ten years, and it will get worse. Better to stop the bleeding now, than not at all.
I'm assuming you won't be helping, so, thanks for your very brilliant analysis. That's typically what most (basic) people say at the beginnings of any change, or revolution. Glad you're special though.