The Washington Post reports that the Finance Committee is “inching toward bipartisan agreement on a health-care plan”. A specific plan, the details of which are sketched out. In case you’re wondering, yes, they thought it best to throw the baby out with the bath water:

The emerging Finance Committee bill would shave about $100 billion off the projected trillion-dollar cost of the legislation over the next decade and eventually provide coverage to 94 percent of Americans, according to participants in the talks. It would expand Medicaid, crack down on insurers, abandon the government insurance option that President Obama is seeking and, for the first time, tax health-care benefits under the most generous plans.