Cell 5bii · GWG Proposal
Fund the Floor by Tax; Enforce Existing Funds
GREEN WHITE GO MANIFESTO — 2026.10.01 · CANONICAL THREE-SENTENCE UNIT
The universal essential-care floor should be financed primarily from general taxation rather than depending on payroll contributions alone, while health-financing obligations already created by current law should be fully enforced.
Those existing legal duties are not the same thing as Green White Go’s additional healthcare guarantee, and the detailed tax mix, transfer formulas, funding flows and full cost of that guarantee belong in the Health Financing Policy Paper and legislation.
The purpose is to finance a national floor in a way that can reach Nigerians regardless of how they earn while using existing lawful health resources before pretending that new promises are already funded.
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The purpose is to finance a national floor in a way that can reach Nigerians regardless of how they earn while using existing lawful health resources before pretending that new promises are already funded.
Basic Health Care Provision Fund
Last verified: 27 September 2026
The National Health Act/BHCPF framework provides a current legal financing floor. The project evidence authenticated the existing statutory floor as at least one per cent of the Federal Government's Consolidated Revenue Fund. A proposal to raise that floor to two per cent was still being described in September 2026 as an amendment bill. Statutory allocation, release, receipt, spending, patient access and the cost of Green White Go's wider guarantee are different questions.
Evidence and limits
Service guarantees are destination proposals. Geographic feasibility, workforce, facilities, recurrent funding and costing require implementation work; a legal duty alone is not proof of access.
The proposal remains distinct from current law and from evidence for individual components.
Evidence notes for this pillarRelated Hard Questions
The proposed essential-care floor relies primarily on general taxation rather than payroll contributions alone. Existing legal financing duties, actual releases, patient access and the additional cost of the GWG guarantee are separate questions. An existing fund does not, by itself, prove that the broader guarantee is funded or delivered.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL
Tax capacity, package costs and delivery finance require detailed modelling; no new tax rate is specified here.
First, from making existing lawful commitments work where the law already provides them. Then from prioritisation. Some programmes will replace weaker programmes. Some existing schools, hospitals, courts, police facilities and public buildings can be repaired, upgraded, consolidated or repurposed rather than automatically rebuilt.
Procurement savings count only when audited evidence shows that the savings actually exist. Future economic growth is not money Green White Go pretends to possess today. The programme is therefore phased. Government also has to disclose future liabilities honestly.
A guarantee, concession, PPP obligation or termination payment does not become free merely because it is not called debt. Green White Go will require a consolidated fiscal account showing what the seven-pillar programme costs, what existing resources can carry, what requires additional revenue and what must wait.
We will not fund the future with imaginary savings.