In all my experience with drug addicts and people living on the street, I've yet to meet one who's actually starving to death. The people I meet who are really suffering are dying of loneliness. No one cares what happens to them. Yes, they usually bear some responsibility for this. The point is, God does not intend for any of us to live in isolation, and when we do, there are predictable, destructive consequences. This is something I see all the time: someone comes to Jesus, then spends years trying to figure out how to be a Christian all by herself. From the earliest forms of Judaism reflected in the Old Testament all the way through the first 1500 years of the organized church, there was no such thing as a lone Christian...they were a contradiction in terms. If you were one, you were not the other. The Enlightenment introduced the idea that the average joe could reason this Christianity thing out, then do it all on his/her own...Jesus became just another mystery to be comprehended by the senses.
News flash: It isn't possible.
Why do shepherds keep sheep together? A lone sheep is a meal waiting to happen. Not to say that the enemy won't attack when we're strongest...that's simply untrue. I do mean to say that we're at our most vulnerable when we're isolated. When Jesus heals people, he doesn't just heal their physical maladies; remember, being blind or crippled in some way meant being a social outcast in the 1st century AD. Furthermore, Judaism of that period would have viewed a person with that sort of handicap as being under the direct curse of God...they were ritually defiled, unable to cleanse themselves in the Temple. They were trapped, doomed to hell because of their sickness. Jesus comes along and changes the whole playing field. He doesn't just heal the exterior issue...he returns the person to his/her life, restores him/her to his/her family. He gives them their lives back.
Jesus wants to give us our lives back. That means first restoring our relationship to our Creator. It also means restoring our relationships with eachother. The bible really seems almost to equate the two in importance, or at least says that where we find restoration with God, we should find restoration with each other.