Is $8 billion enough to get the House health bill passed? And is it enough to ensure that people with pre-existing medical conditions will still be able to get insurance if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act?

The answer to the first question is maybe. On the second, it’s very likely to be no.

A recent amendment to the Republican bill would allow states to waive an Obamacare rule that forbids charging sick people higher insurance prices, as long as the states set up a special insurance pool for those customers. Some Republican lawmakers worried these high risk pools would be inadequate. To win over the holdouts, the Republican leadership added another amendment that would provide an extra $8 billion over five years to states that choose to set up the pools.

Two of the holdouts, Representatives Fred Upton of Michigan and Billy Long of Missouri, now seem convinced. On Tuesday, both said they could not support the Republican bill because it would make people with pre-existing health conditions too vulnerable. Now, they say they will vote for the bill with the new amendment. The vote could take place on Thursday.

The $8 billion is not the only money that the health bill would make available to states. The American Health Care Act would also provide $100 billion to states over a decade to stabilize their markets, though states would have to match some of the federal spending. Amendments to the bill will provide another $30 billion to states, with only a few strings attached. If states pieced together all of the money and used it all for high-risk pools, about $138 billion would be available for such programs.