This weekend I watched Michael Moore’s Sicko (Special Edition)
Here are my takeaways from the weekend.
- American “democracy” continues to act in direct opposition to the wishes of the American people. . . the electoral college handing Bush the election despite him getting fewer votes. . . NAFTA . . .cutting back on social programming like education and health care, while cranking out more and more corporate welfare in the way of government bailouts of failing industries and subsidies that do not allow the market to check itself.
- Industries like health care are meant to serve a population. Their success should not be judged based on how many medical procedures are denied in order to grow corporate coffers. Instead, such industries should be judged on how much good they do, and their ability to be sustainable industries that put any profits back into improving services offered. HMOs with billion dollar valuations are simply profiting off of denying people care they need. . . with potentially fatal consequences for those covered. What if we instead determined the valuation of such companies based on their customer satisfaction and longevity rates?
Thoughts?
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How about if we judge government on how much good they do and customer satisfaction rates. Maybe you could do the survey at the DMV.