national health care / California sales tax

This was the covered topic for our Monday, August 17 (changed from the 10th), meeting:

• What is the real Health Plan that is in Congress? Will it benefit us when it is passed? [sic]

See SCSHTD group (email archive) for past meeting notices. [It's been a privilege serving as chairman of the agenda committee. See my thoughts on that job. Also, see my entry on how SCPD does it.]

We touched on national health care recently. See my notes for our June 26 meeting.

NY Times opinion: Real Choice? It’s Off Limits in Health Bills , Get Real on Health Care

KCRW: Concierge Doctors: Primary Care and the Well-to-Do

AARP: Health Reform: Get the Facts

Newsweek: Give It To Us Straight

Here's one animated and simplified view.

I inquired with Lynn about when the homeowners would take control of the HOA. She replied as follows:

The governing documents do specify that the developer will lose 2 positions on the Board at the annual meeting following reaching 75% of the lots authorized in the tentative subdivision map being closed. Based on sales projections that I have been given by the developer that will not happen before the 2009 annual meeting but may happen prior to the 2010 annual meeting. I will be writing an article soon discussing the upcoming annual meeting as well as how all of this works as we progress from a majority of developer members on the board to a majority of homeowner members on the board.

And in the news ... some developers have walked away from their developments before completion. How has that affected the homeowners therein?

locally: Dream homes turning into nightmares

elsewhere: La Cresta near Orlando

I gave an update from resident Don Hauser about a/c problems; see my updated entry for our June 26 meeting. As regards such problems elsewhere, you might wish to look at this anecdotal site.