If a doctor knows that an insurance company will pay for most of a patient's bill, the doctor has more of an incentive to require additional medical procedures and tests, even if the patient may not require them. This is an example of

A) adverse selection. B) moral hazard.
C) asymmetric information. D) the principle-agent problem.


D

Economics

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