Can You Have Too Much Help?(Brief Article)

As I watched the tragedy of the Turkish earthquake unfold last month -- the endless footage of collapsed buildings, rising body counts and grieving victims -- I kept thinking two things: 1) Thank goodness it didn't happen here, and 2) Wow, what if it did happen here?

Preliminary estimates of insured losses in Turkey have ranged from $2 billion to $5 billion. Turkish officials estimated that up to a third of the country's population has been affected by the Aug. 17 quake, which measured 7.4 on the Richter scale. By the end of August, the death toll was at 14,000 and risi