With Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius touting universal health care -- including an immediate plan to cover all children, regardless of income level, up to the age of five -- Kansas House Republicans last week unveiled KanCare, a promising free-market health reform package for the Sunflower State.

I'm excited about KanCare because, as this post's title suggests, it seems to be the "non-plan" plan.  Let me explain . . . 

Many lawmakers (yes, including some Republicans) usually can't resist a complicated, wonk-ish health reform plan with a bunch of moving parts and added flow charts.

So for many legislators facing universal health care in their states, they just don't want to play "defense" -- they often want their own, slightly-less-big-government plan to put on the table.

Preliminary reports suggest that that's what makes KanCare so different (and special).  Although KanCare is a "plan" in the traditional sense of the word, its moving parts strive to lessen government involvement in health care, rather than increasing it.

KanCare, the brainchild of newly-elected Kansas Representative Jeff Colyer, could be a model for other limited-government legislators who no longer want to sit on the sidelines in the health policy debate.