Healthcare as a social good: neighborhoods and neighborliness

A host asks what changes if health is framed as a social good rather than an individual right. Matthew points to the built environment - neighborhoods designed for cars versus walkable streets with porches where neighbors interact - and asks whether we assume the government will handle a struggling neighbor or look after them ourselves. He argues meeting basic neighborly responsibilities would make the whole enterprise cheaper, notes loneliness is deadly, and cites the opaque US payment system spending four times as much on paperwork as Canada.