Excerpt: Cutting out unnecessary expenses would help rein in galloping health care inflation. But if the plan design exposed people to too much financial risk, the great fear was that they would go without needed care -- and wind up in much worse physical condition that would demand far higher costs to treat. For a number of analysts, the data already clearly suggest that the greater the cost of care, the more likely that people will go without. New research at Rand has found a direct link between drug costs and avoidance[.]  MORE >>