Opinion: U.S., U.K. health care systems share a fatal flaw

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At a church on the outskirts of Liverpool, older residents amble in for community lunch. In Sunderland, mothers swap stories as they are guided through play exercises with their babies at a local hub. On the St Matthew’s estate in Leicester, children spill out of school and onto a new football pitch.

These scenes are unremarkable, the everyday rhythms of community life. None of it looks much like health care. But this relational, daily support keeps people healthy and resilient outside of the clinical system — while remaining largely peripheral to how we fund, measure, and debate health.

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