Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson has promised to quit after his first term if Georgia didn't have the most affordable healthcare in the country.
In Mineral Bluff, I was asked about healthcare.
The system is filled with perverse incentives. We’ve got to get rid of middlemen and get insurance companies out of the pharmacy business.
I know the game and I’m not afraid to call the bad actors out. My promise is this: If… pic.twitter.com/NvOViyhakb
— Rick Jackson (@RickJacksonGA) April 16, 2026
"We are not going to live long enough for the Feds to solve this problem," he said in the video posted to X on April 16, 2026.
His solution: cutting insurance companies out of the pharmacy business.
"I've owned every part of the healthcare system. I know how it works," he commented. "It has perverse incentives, and you've got to get rid of a lot of people in the middle of the process, eliminate cost, make it easier."
The billionaire owns Jackson Healthcare, one of the largest health care staffing companies in the country. He said insurance companies are shifting profit to pharmaceutical companies which costs Georgians money.
"I know the game and I'll call them on it," he vowed.
Jackson went on to emphasize his deep knowledge of the inner workings of the healthcare system in comparison to other Georgia politicians and his opponents who he said "can't spell healthcare."
Jackson will face off against the other Republcian candidates for governor in the May 19, 2026, primary.
