Selina Simmons-Duffin

Good morning, Michelle.

Well, what came out yesterday was a fact sheet.

It's very sparse on details, and the policies mentioned there are not really new.

It's kind of like a greatest hits of Republican health policy ideas packaged together.

You've got the idea of tying drug prices to what people pay in other countries, health savings accounts, and better price transparency.

Well, it doesn't mention repealing Obamacare.

And again, it's short on details, but it seems like they'd like to let people use federal dollars to buy plans that don't offer comprehensive coverage.

These are sometimes called skinny plans or junk plans.

That could seriously weaken healthcare.gov, which has plans that can be expensive, but they offer essential benefits and don't discriminate if you have pre-existing conditions.

Also, there's one idea that was conspicuously missing from Trump's plan, and that is extending the enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans.

And the timing is really telling, since this announcement came yesterday on the day that open enrollment ended for healthcare.gov, although it's still open in a few states until the end of the month.

Well, enrollment is down for the first time in five years.

Obamacare marketplaces have hit records every year since the enhanced subsidies were passed.

Last year, total enrollment was 24 million, but now those extra subsidies have expired.

And earlier this week, the agency that runs healthcare.gov released data

showing 22.8 million people had picked a plan as of January.

Cynthia Cox of the nonpartisan research organization KFF says that surprised her.

Honestly, the sign-up numbers...

look stronger than I expected.

I thought that more people would have dropped off by now.