Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Kevin Brady, top Republican lawmakers, unveiled a new proposal to shore up the Affordable Care Act, challenging a separate bipartisan compromise among their fellow lawmakers.

The legislation would roll back coverage mandates that supporters of the health law say are critical to its success.

Hatch and Brady said their deal includes funding for insurer subsidies for two years, with unspecified “pro-life protections”; pausing Obamacare’s requirements that all people have health insurance and that employers offer it; and increasing the contribution limit for health-savings accounts.

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