"Some doctors are willing to do battle with the insurance companies on behalf of their patients. Others simply break the rules by disguising treatments that are not covered by insurance as treatments that are."
This passage is an example of the controversial nature of this chapter, although it is not the only controversial aspect of economics in the chapter. Although I had a grip on the fact that some doctors may discuss the treatments not covered by insurance companies, I thought that it was a rare occurrence and not a thing that would be discussed economically. Wheelan discusses earlier in the page this: "The person who knows most about your medical condition may have an economic incentive to deny you care." This stood out to me along with the first passage because most doctors I thought,(not all but most) would start being a doctor who help people, not to gain economic growth at the cost of her or his patients.
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