2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

Health Care Access

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

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,715 664 15.1 13.8-16.5 4,051 84.9 83.5-86.2
Medicaid Region 2 659 92 14.8 11.9-18.2 567 85.2 81.8-88.1
GENDER
Male 303 30 10.0 6.7-14.7 273 90.0 85.3-93.3
Female 356 62 19.1 14.8-24.3 294 80.9 75.7-85.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 481 55 12.0 9.0-15.8 426 88.0 84.2-91.0
Non-Hispanic Black 112 16 15.7 9.2-25.5 96 84.3 74.5-90.8
Other 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 215 44 20.9 15.4-27.6 171 79.1 72.4-84.6
45-64 230 37 13.7 9.8-18.8 193 86.3 81.2-90.2
65+ 203 *** *** *** 194 95.1 90.0-97.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 238 37 14.1 9.9-19.7 201 85.9 80.3-90.1
Some Post-H.S. 195 33 18.9 13.3-26.1 162 81.1 73.9-86.7
College Graduate 223 21 9.9 6.2-15.4 202 90.1 84.6-93.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 273 56 22.8 17.4-29.2 217 77.2 70.8-82.6
$50,000+ 248 18 7.6 4.6-12.3 230 92.4 87.7-95.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 132 17 12.5 7.2-20.6 115 87.5 79.4-92.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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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