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Mercy seeks smaller medical center in CL  CRYSTAL LAKE ? Mercy Health System intends to build a 83,000 square foot medical center at the site it once had planned for a hospital, Mercy officials said Wednesday.

Health care plans: Obama vs. McCain  Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama have dramatically divergent visions of how to reshape the health insurance system.

Children and Health Coverage Studied  More than two million children in the U.S. who have no health insurance of any kind have at least one parent who gets employer-provided medical coverage, researchers said.

Health insurers reinvent themselves as money managers  Many rush to open banks as more Americans open health savings accounts, a tax-sheltered way to pay medical bills. Managing that money is more profitable than offering health insurance. Second of three parts

Voters Want Next U.S. President To Make Patient-Centered Primary Care A Key Component In Fixing Health Care, Survey  As Election Day nears, Americans want their next President to support a patient-centered medical home as part of their health care reform agenda. A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative found that support for the major presidential candidates' health care plans surges when the patient-centered medical home model is included.

Aetna CEO urges mandatory health care coverage  Americans should be required to buy health insurance, bringing healthier people into plans that will help bring down costs, the chairman of one of the nation's largest private insurance companies told a Detroit audience Tuesday.

Health Highlights: Oct. 21, 2008   Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

American Public Health Association's 136th Annual Meeting Focuses On Reproductive Health Topics  Involving men in family planning, partner communication about sex and sexual health, and tailoring teen specific reproductive health services are among the cutting-edge topics being presented by researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center's Institute for Reproductive Health at the American Public Health Association's 136th Annual Meeting Oct.

Health care to test next president  WASHINGTON ? Barack Obama and John McCain both have big-ticket proposals to change how people obtain and pay for health insurance. A long history of failed health-reform plans shows how difficult it is to achieve that goal. And, with the financial meltdown, the job only got tougher for any future president.

McCain, Obama diverge radically on health care  Health insurance, a costly need that haunts millions of Americans, is pitting the 2008 presidential candidates against each other along primal political lines.

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