“REGIME UNCERTAINTY” KILLS A PROJECT: New downtown Knoxville Mercy hospital shelved. “Mercy Health Partners said Thursday it has shelved plans to build a new downtown hospital because of the economy and uncertainty over the national health care debate. . . . The Obama administration has announced its intention to enact sweeping health care reform this year. ‘The only certainty is that reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid are going to go down,’ Askew said. Mercy Health has also put on hold any future capital expenditures at all of its campuses other than what has already been started.”