"I think we ought to acknowledge that we can come back to health care afterwards but we need to move ahead on tax reform," Hatch told Reuters. Hatch and Sen. Mike Lee both supported a plan dubbed the "skinny repeal" that would have erased fines for individuals who hadn't purchased health care and a mandate for companies with more than 50 employees to provide insurance  key components of Obamacare  but the bill failed after three Republican senators and all Democrats and independents opposed it.