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Former Kansas Libertarian lieutenant governor candidate says he can save KanCare money

KANSAS CITY, KAN. ---- Wichita physician and former lieutenant governor candidate Josh Umbehr is scheduled to talk to a legislative committee Wednesday about integrating direct primary care into KanCare.

Josh Umbehr, who runs a direct primary care practice called Atlas MD, gleaned 4 percent of the vote in November while running on the Libertarian ticket with his father, Alma attorney Keen Umbehr.

Josh Umbehr used the campaign in part to tout the benefits of the direct primary care model in which family physicians avoid the complexities of fee-for-service insurance reimbursement by charging their patients an all-inclusive monthly membership fee instead.

He is set to speak to the Vision 2020 Committee, which has scheduled hearings on Medicaid reform. Josh Umbehr and his father also have been trying to connect with members of Gov. Sam Brownbacks administration to talk about incorporating the direct primary care model into KanCare, the states $3 billion privatized Medicaid program.

We have had limited talks about KanCare but would like to explore it further and talk with Lt. Gov. (Jeff Colyer) about it in more detail, Josh Umbehr said.

Keen Umbehr said recently that he and his son already met with former Brownback administration official Steve Anderson to discuss their idea.

Anderson, Brownbacks former budget director, is now an analyst for the Kansas Policy Institute, a conservative think tank. Keen Umbehr said Anderson suggested he and his son propose a pilot project with 1,000 Wichita-area Medicaid recipients.

Anderson also said he would contact Colyer, who has been the governors point man on KanCare, about the idea.

Eileen Hawley, a spokeswoman for Brownback, said she is unaware of any dialogue between Mr. Umbehr and the Administration.

Hawley said primary care under KanCare already is working well and keeping more Medicaid patients out of emergency rooms. According to the Direct Primary Care Coalition, other states have worked direct primary care practices into their Medicaid systems. They include Washington state.

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Libertarian Party of Florida – Official Site

The Libertarian Party of Florida (LPF) is the third largest political party in the state, and is the only true alternative to the Republican/Democrat stranglehold on our economic freedom and individual liberty.

The LPF recognizes that you own your life, and that you are free to pursue happiness in your own way, with extremely limited interference from government. The Libertarian Party of Florida promotes and defends the following principles:

We are building the structure to ensure historic electoral victories in 2014 and beyond. We have the right legislative plan to ensure that government is beholden to the We the People. And we have the right platform to repair the economy and restore our freedoms. We have the candidates on the local, county and state level who will actually uphold and defend the Constitutionnot just talk about it during campaign season. The LPF has new leadership, a bold vision, and a renewed determination to achieve these goals. All we need now is you! Become a part of the Libertarian revolution. Join the Libertarian Party of Florida today. Support your local Libertarian candidates. Invest you time to our noble and worthy cause. Donate as much money as you can so that we have the resources to defeat the political ruling class. With your help, we can ensure our children inherit a State, and a Nation, that would make our Founding Fathers proud.

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Heather Wilhelm: Im weary of Washington

Every time I go to Washington, D.C., I leave town a little more libertarian. Unfortunately, our nations capital seems to have the opposite impact on its longtime residents.

Dont get me wrong: D.C. is really nice. Its a gorgeous city. But every time I go there, I cant help thinking that its really nice because you, I and your cousin Rick are paying for it. That new hotel with the shower replicating Balinese rainfall is harder to love, really, when you realize its probably just your trickled-down tax dollars. That swanky bar with the Prohibition theme may be fun and ironic! but it also might leave you with the sneaking suspicion that in some way, shape or form, through the long, twisting curve of the economic chain, you just bought everyone in the room a very expensive drink made of top-shelf alcohol, artisanal pomegranate seeds and edible gold glitter. Cheers!

Heres where it gets even creepier: Odds are, pretty much everyone at that same fancy bar is connected, usually financially, to the growing government borg. I once spent a half hour at the bar of the Park Hyatt Washington. Waiting for a friend, I ended up chatting with a young woman who worked for the Department of the Undersecretary of Interagency Special Projects of Something or Other. After about 24 minutes, I felt like the downsizing consultants in the movie Office Space. I honestly could not figure out what she did.

As Forbes recently reported, six of the 10 wealthiest counties in the nation are in the D.C. area, and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out why: Again, its you, me and your cousin Rick.

Tuesdays State of the Union address exemplified the glossy, impervious D.C. bubble, with President Barack Obama spouting giveaways like a carnival barker and repeatedly misusing the most popular word in our nations capital, which is free. Community college! Child care! Television ratings for the State of the Union have been dropping in recent years 33.3 million people watched in 2014, which is 4 million fewer than the previous year and less than a third of the number who watched the Super Bowl. This is bad, because many Americans are clearly missing a glorious chance to see how insane our government really is.

Before anyone asks me whos going to build the roads in my experience, when you express even the slightest libertarian inklings, someone will undoubtedly ask you, usually in all caps, WHO IS GOING TO BUILD THE ROADS? I shall not dodge the question. The government, which, as we all know, is funded by you, me and you-know-who, should build the roads. It should also manage the military. The government, in fact, has many necessary and worthy functions, many of which are helpfully laid out in the Constitution. (I know, I know. Nobody cares.)

That said, the government does not need to micromanage student lunches, mandate gender-neutral bathrooms in preschools, or leak our personal health information to private data firms when we sign in to Healthcare.gov. The bad news, as The Associated Press reported, is that the government might actually be sniffing around that last idea. The good news, I suppose, is that the Healthcare.gov website appears to have been constructed out of fishing twine, used tin foil, and a floppy disk filled with pirated software from the pioneering 1980s video game Oregon Trail, making it unlikely that any real data could actually get through.

On that note, I have a brilliant idea for a new government program. It may seem counterintuitive at first, but bear with me. If our goal is reasonably limited government in America, perhaps we should start a federally funded fellowship program that would bus average Americans to D.C., where they could then sit at the bar of the Park Hyatt Washington for an hour. There would be no need to stock the bar with employees of, say, the Bureau of Sustainable Orchards and Southern Nativity Scene Management they, or someone similar, will surely be hanging out, ready to talk all about themselves and the mysterious and important things they do.

The bus trips may seem costly at first, but think of it as an investment. And, unlike a Barack Obama-style government investment, this one would actually pay off: Odds are, participants would go home so disgusted that theyd never vote for a spending increase again.

Heather Wilhelm lives in Austin and writes a regular column for real clearpolitics.com. Reach her at wilhelmheather@yahoo.com or follow her on Twitter at @heatherwilhelm.

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