GOP plans healthcare rollback

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Republicans in the U.S. Congress say they are developing plans to roll back portions of President Obama's new healthcare law after the November election.

"The more Republicans we have here, the more changes we can make," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., told The New York Times.

While repealing the law may be impossible, a number of Republicans have said they plan to chip away at the law's most onerous provisions, the Times reported Tuesday.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, a senior Republican on the Finance Committee, has introduced legislation that would eliminate the law's requirement that employers pay a penalty if they don't offer their workers health insurance.

Other tactics include withholding money that federal officials need to administer and enforce the law, the Times said.

Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said she supports efforts to make major changes in the law because she doubts that the law will work.