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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Health Care Access

Was there a time during the last 12 months when you needed to see a doctor, but could not because of the cost?

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 265804 32,263 12.9 12.6-13.1 233541 87.1 86.9-87.4
Alabama 3,336 454 13.7 12.4-15.2 2,882 86.3 84.8-87.6
Alaska 2,657 385 12.3 10.8-14.0 2,272 87.7 86.0-89.2
Arizona 3,230 396 11.8 10.2-13.7 2,834 88.2 86.3-89.8
Arkansas 4,192 640 16.1 14.8-17.4 3,552 83.9 82.6-85.2
California 4,474 523 13.2 11.9-14.5 3,951 86.8 85.5-88.1
Colorado 4,062 455 12.1 10.9-13.4 3,607 87.9 86.6-89.1
Connecticut 5,309 422 8.4 7.5- 9.4 4,887 91.6 90.6-92.5
Delaware 4,037 369 8.5 7.4- 9.6 3,668 91.5 90.4-92.6
District of Columbia 2,040 191 9.5 7.9-11.3 1,849 90.5 88.7-92.1
Florida 5,017 753 14.4 12.9-16.0 4,264 85.6 84.0-87.1
Georgia 7,630 1,212 15.8 14.7-17.0 6,418 84.2 83.0-85.3
Hawaii 5,995 462 8.5 7.6- 9.4 5,533 91.5 90.6-92.4
Idaho 4,989 764 14.9 13.7-16.1 4,225 85.1 83.9-86.3
Illinois 5,263 548 10.7 9.6-12.0 4,715 89.3 88.0-90.4
Indiana 5,472 683 13.0 12.0-14.1 4,789 87.0 85.9-88.0
Iowa 4,998 357 7.8 6.9- 8.9 4,641 92.2 91.1-93.1
Kansas 4,614 517 11.4 10.3-12.5 4,097 88.6 87.5-89.7
Kentucky 7,613 1,389 17.9 16.6-19.3 6,224 82.1 80.7-83.4
Louisiana 5,048 874 17.8 16.5-19.0 4,174 82.2 81.0-83.5
Maine 2,385 247 10.6 9.3-12.2 2,138 89.4 87.8-90.7
Maryland 4,424 435 11.6 10.3-13.0 3,989 88.4 87.0-89.7
Massachusetts 7,565 581 7.1 6.4- 7.9 6,984 92.9 92.1-93.6
Michigan 3,549 353 11.1 9.9-12.5 3,196 88.9 87.5-90.1
Minnesota 3,878 270 7.7 6.7- 8.8 3,608 92.3 91.2-93.3
Mississippi 4,406 818 18.4 17.1-19.8 3,588 81.6 80.2-82.9
Missouri 4,244 492 11.0 9.8-12.3 3,752 89.0 87.7-90.2
Montana 4,008 493 12.9 11.5-14.4 3,515 87.1 85.6-88.5
Nebraska 4,967 457 9.4 8.5-10.4 4,510 90.6 89.6-91.5
Nevada 2,965 383 13.6 11.9-15.5 2,582 86.4 84.5-88.1
New Hampshire 5,034 445 9.3 8.3-10.3 4,589 90.7 89.7-91.7
New Jersey 11,290 1,099 11.5 10.8-12.4 10,191 88.5 87.6-89.2
New Mexico 5,488 766 14.0 12.9-15.1 4,722 86.0 84.9-87.1
New York 5,528 610 13.5 12.3-14.7 4,918 86.5 85.3-87.7
North Carolina 9,439 1,478 14.9 13.8-16.1 7,961 85.1 83.9-86.2
North Dakota 3,018 211 6.8 5.9- 7.9 2,807 93.2 92.1-94.1
Ohio 3,813 391 10.4 9.2-11.7 3,422 89.6 88.3-90.8
Oklahoma 7,621 1,178 16.6 15.6-17.7 6,443 83.4 82.3-84.4
Oregon 4,013 555 14.9 13.7-16.3 3,458 85.1 83.7-86.3
Pennsylvania 3,666 308 9.0 8.0-10.2 3,358 91.0 89.8-92.0
Rhode Island 4,047 358 9.6 8.5-10.9 3,689 90.4 89.1-91.5
South Carolina 5,911 872 15.6 14.5-16.8 5,039 84.4 83.2-85.5
South Dakota 5,260 455 9.0 8.1-10.0 4,805 91.0 90.0-91.9
Tennessee 2,581 283 11.6 10.2-13.2 2,298 88.4 86.8-89.8
Texas 6,020 1,083 19.5 18.3-20.8 4,937 80.5 79.2-81.7
Utah 4,047 494 13.1 11.7-14.7 3,553 86.9 85.3-88.3
Vermont 4,246 380 9.4 8.4-10.5 3,866 90.6 89.5-91.6
Virginia 5,432 661 11.1 10.1-12.2 4,771 88.9 87.8-89.9
Washington 18,582 2,345 13.0 12.4-13.6 16,237 87.0 86.4-87.6
West Virginia 3,348 557 17.8 16.4-19.4 2,791 82.2 80.6-83.6
Wisconsin 4,046 356 8.3 7.3- 9.4 3,690 91.7 90.6-92.7
Wyoming 3,996 479 12.5 11.3-13.7 3,517 87.5 86.3-88.7
Guam 804 165 22.4 19.2-26.1 639 77.6 73.9-80.8
Puerto Rico 4,164 448 10.2 9.0-11.5 3,716 89.8 88.5-91.0
Virgin Islands 2,043 363 19.0 16.9-21.4 1,680 81.0 78.6-83.1

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

* Data in this table were derived from health insurance question and only those under age 65 and employed for wages included

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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