As a health care worker I have cared for a lot of patients without health insurance. If someone comes into the ER with a life threatening injury, chances are they will get medical help. If our congress does not "treat" our economy it's like letting a patient die in the street.

Government has a moral obilgation to first do no harm. Like in medincine, doing nothing can cause more harm than sitting by doing nothing.Watching our economy fail while waiting for the markets to "work themselfs out" is not an option.

Failure can be very profitable for those "in the know". Our government does not think our economy is capable of complete and total failure. I guess we have nothing to worry about.