Biography 

Born in Georgia

Paulding County High School 

University of Georgia, BS Biology

Medical College of Georgia, MD

University of Connecticut, Emergency Medicine 

Athens Regional Medical Center, Emergency Department

Colin McKinney, MD for Insurance Commissioner

Colin Mckinney was born in Georgia. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Georgia and a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia.

I’ve been a practicing Emergency Medicine physician since 2006, here in Athens, Georgia since 2009. I’ve been on the Board of my company since 2011 and served on multiple committees at Piedmont Athens Regional for many years. I’ve seen just about everything you can see in the emergency department, but I’ve also heard for years from my patients their frustrations with their insurers.

Colin Mckinney works as an emergency medicine physician in Athens, Georgia.

I was nominated in 2022 to run for PSC to help LPGA maintain ballot access. The PSC races are relatively easy ways to get the needed 2% of voters that allows us to keep our names on the ballot for other statewide races, like President, Governor, and (ahem) Labor Commissioner. However there was a lawsuit in 2022 that challenged the practice of making PSC candidates live in a certain district and then allowing them to be voted on by the entire state. So the 2022 election was cancelled.

Here we go again. . . — Colin McKinney, MD for Insurance Commissioner

Colin was nominated in 2022 to run for the Public Service Commission, but the election was canceled.

2026 Georgia General Election

## Platform:
#### “Georgians deserve a choice in insurance providers, fair treatment by them, and enforcement of their contracts with them.”

  * #### More choice:
Georgians deserve easier access to health insurance plans outside of their employer and across state lines.

Platform and FAQs; not meant to be permanent or binding. — Colin McKinney, MD for Insurance Commissioner

You have a choice in car, home, and life insurance, but your health insurance is often limited to what your employer can provide. This is because your employer can bargain for better rates by signing a contract and then use your money to pay for insurance as a pre-tax expense.

Consumers should be able to join co-ops or similar groups in order to negotiate for better rates OUTSIDE of their employer.

  * #### More competition:
In order to protect the interests of the people of Georgia, the insurance market must be truly free.
You have a choice in car, home, and life insurance, but your health insurance is often limited to what your employer can provide.

Inflation has unfortunately affected every aspect of American life, but insurance costs seem to increase no matter who’s in charge of the economy. This is partly because of our aging populace and more expensive drugs and treatments.

However, limitations on the number of companies allowed to work in a particular state and disallowing customers from shopping or collective bargaining allows insurance companies to just keep increasing their prices and their profits.
I have no ethical problem with a company making lots and lots of money. . . unless that company is protected from competition or from compliance.

Advocates expanding access to health insurance plans outside employer coverage and across state lines.

Supports allowing consumers to join co-ops or similar groups to negotiate insurance rates outside employer coverage.

Advocates a freer insurance market to increase competition and address rising insurance prices.

- Advocates expanding access to health insurance plans outside employer coverage and across state lines.
- Supports allowing consumers to join co-ops or similar groups to negotiate insurance rates outside employer coverage.
- Advocates a freer insurance market to increase competition and address rising insurance prices.

Insurance

These practices are touted as “cost saving measures” but they’re really just ways to maximize profits at your expense, making you jump through hoops to delay or deny the healthcare you expected.

Insurers who abuse their customers in these ways must be held accountable. It is the duty of the Insurance Commissioner to enforce contracts and revoke licenses if necessary for continued abuses.

Are you pleased with your interactions with your insurance companies? Have you dutifully paid your premiums for years with the expectation that you’d be taken care of when an emergency came up? Did your company live up to your expectations? Or were you short-changed, denied coverage, or subject to unreasonable delays in care or payment?

Companies that take advantage of their customers by taking premiums but not meeting expectations when claims are filed must be held accountable. Furthermore, companies that have one-sided contracts with payors who then try to short-change them must also be held accountable. This is a nationwide problem, and Georgia needs to lead the charge in fixing it.

If elected as Insurance Commissioner, I will strive to serve within these parameters, in the best interest of the people whom I shall represent. I will try my best to inspire the most free-market solutions possible. However, I firmly believe that the State could do a better job of enforcing contracts and holding insurers accountable to their policy holders and other parties with whom they contract.

Supports enforcing insurance contracts and holding insurers accountable for mishandled claims, including revoking the licenses of insurers that continue such abuses.

- Supports enforcing insurance contracts and holding insurers accountable for mishandled claims, including revoking the licenses of insurers that continue such abuses.

Consumer Protection

As of July 24, 2026, Colin Mckinney’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Fire Safety

Housing & Urban Development

Endorsements

Colin Mckinney

Colin Mckinney is from Georgia. He attended Paulding County High School. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Georgia and a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed residency training in emergency medicine at the University of Connecticut. He lives with his wife and children in Athens.

Colin is an Emergency Medicine physician. He works at Georgia Emergency Medicine Specialists, where he has been a board member and serves as secretary since 2011. He has practiced emergency medicine since 2006, treating patients in Athens, Georgia, since 2009.

Log - The Green Papers

Supports free-market solutions for insurance but believes the State should improve contract enforcement and hold insurers accountable to policyholders.

Isaac Brickman

Buket Urgen

John King

Keisha Sean Waites

- The Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner (Insurance Commissioner for short) oversees the office that regulates insurance companies to make sure they’re following state law.
- The Insurance Commissioner works with insurance companies to set prices for all types of insurance including health, automobile, and home. 
- The Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner acts as Georgia’s top fire marshal. Their office conducts inspections of buildings and houses to prevent fire outbreaks and keep the public safe. 
- In October 2021, the former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud. For this reason, corruption is one of the top issues we highlight for this office.
- The Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner is a statewide position that is elected to four-year terms.

Regulates the insurance industry and ensures fire safety in Georgia