Has the stock market become the only measure of economic health?

How do we get Americans to focus on metrics besides the S&P 500, Dow, and NASDAQ? These markets indicate how investors in publically-traded companies are doing, but what about inflation, the value of the dollar, purchasing power, the price of precious metals, etc.? It's like, if a particular action is taken (bailout bill defeated) and the financial markets go down, it was a bad thing. It just means it was bad for Wall Street investors who speculated that the market would go up. Conversely, if something happens and the markets go up, it's assumed that whatever happened was a good thing and we should do more of it (like expand credit to infinity).

Is there anything we can do to redirect the focus from the financial market numbers to other measures that are more directly related to the econmomic well-being of Americans?