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But Cruz’s amendment has drawn concern from critics who worry it would destabilize the risk pool that brings together healthy and sick individuals and could mean higher coverage costs for less healthy people.

“There’s a real feeling that that’s subterfuge to get around preexisting conditions,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), according to Iowa Public Radio. “If it is subterfuge and it has the effect of annihilating the preexisting condition requirement that we have in the existing bill, than obviously I would object to that.”