Whereas the capacity and well-being of the United States health workforce has been burdened for decades by an epidemic of burnout, and this trend has been exacerbated in recent years; Whereas burnout can have wide-ranging consequences for individual health care workers, including occupational injury, risk of depression and suicide, lower morale and productivity, absenteeism, and possible deleterious impact on patient care; Whereas 50 percent of health care workers reported burnout in 2020; Whereas, in 2020, 44 percent of nurses experienced physical violence and 68 percent experienced verbal abuse; Whereas, in 2020, 69 percent of physicians experienced colloquial depression, 20 percent experienced clinical depression, and 13 percent had thoughts of suicide; Whereas physicians, particularly female physicians, are more likely than the general population to die by suicide, and United States physicians are more likely to die by suicide than physicians in other nations; Whereas rates of burnout have serious consequences for the capacity of the United States health system, particularly in regard to employee retention and recruitment; Whereas, in 2023, job quitting among health care and social assistance workers was 9.2 percent higher than in February 2020; Whereas approximately 40 percent of United States health care workers plan to leave their current role within the next 5 years; Whereas the average operating margin for hospitals in the United States was reduced by 130 percent between 2019 and 2020, driven in part by persistent labor shortages; Whereas staffing shortages and impacts of burnout on the mental health and productivity of health care workers raise serious concerns about quality of care and patient safety; Whereas the decreased capacity of the United States health system constitutes both a serious public health concern and a challenge to economic security