Increase in health expenditure levels off in OECD zone. The increase in health expenditure saw a considerable slow-down, even a drop, in 2010, in almost all of the countries of the OECD, reversing a long-term trend of rapid increase, according to the latest OECD statistics on health. Health expenditure in the countries of the OECD increased by on average nearly 5% a year in real terms over the period 2000-2009, but saw zero growth in 2010. The preliminary figures of the OECD for a small...