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Keep in mind: that waiver in 2017 also has to be approved by HHS, which I'm sure will be right at the top of President Cruz's priorities.
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Shumlin is going to need to stay on as Governor until the program gets approved and implemented because most of the details are being ironed out by a board overseen and appointed by the Governor, which is not politically popular within the state. He easily won re-election in 2012 after his very narrow initial victory in 2010. Obviously, 2012 was a good year to be running as a Democrat in a blue state, but so far it looks like he'll coast to victory again in 2014. Right now his only challenger on the Republican ticket is perennial Independent candidate Emily Peyton, whose big platform idea is to grant total property tax relief to anyone willing to set up a lifetime hemp farm using loans from a new public bank. Yeah, she's not the typical Republican.
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There will be an exclusion period, probably 6-12 months. A lot of the details are still being worked out because the state was required to set up a PPACA exchange and picked the same vendor that was used for healthcare.gov, so they've been working on getting that working. But there's another reason that people won't flood into the state to mooch off out sweet, sweet socialism: it requires moving to Vermont. And for anyone in mind to get down with some mooching, that probably also means having a chance at getting housing and a job in Vermont, which is non-trivial. We had this same conversation back in the day when VT was the first state to allow civil unions. The "Take Vermont Back" crowd argued that the state would become a "Gay Mecca" (which was a hilarious oxymoron itself) and they gays would flood in and gay up all the farms. They'd probably make us rename the state's iconic product "gayple syrup" or something! Needless to say, this did not happen, despite the economic and social benefits it offered people who wanted civil unions and later marriages.
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Shumlin also nearly died last year because he decided to run out of his house naked and chase a bear that was eating from his bird feeder through his backyard.
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It is illegal in Vermont for a company to sell a product with "maple" in its name unless it contains real maple. If you go to a McDonalds in Vermont and order the Fruit & Maple Oatmeal breakfast you can ask for a side of real maple syrup and they have to give it to you, thanks to a case that went to the Vermont Supreme Court.
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