2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs,
or government plans such as Medicare?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,719 4,088 85.5 84.1-86.7 631 14.5 13.3-15.9
Medicaid Region 3 724 618 84.1 80.7-87.0 106 15.9 13.0-19.3
GENDER
Male 334 278 81.3 75.8-85.8 56 18.7 14.2-24.2
Female 390 340 86.7 82.3-90.1 50 13.3 9.9-17.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 474 431 88.9 84.8-91.9 43 11.1 8.1-15.2
Non-Hispanic Black 136 120 87.2 79.2-92.5 16 12.8 7.5-20.8
Other 114 67 55.5 45.3-65.4 47 44.5 34.6-54.7
AGE
18-44 288 227 78.5 72.8-83.3 61 21.5 16.7-27.2
45-64 238 196 83.3 77.1-88.0 42 16.7 12.0-22.9
65+ 182 180 98.7 93.3-99.8 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 249 179 73.6 67.2-79.1 70 26.4 20.9-32.8
Some Post-H.S. 220 195 87.6 81.2-92.0 25 12.4 8.0-18.8
College Graduate 250 239 95.7 92.1-97.7 11 4.3 2.3- 7.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 281 221 76.7 70.5-81.9 60 23.3 18.1-29.5
$50,000+ 296 278 92.8 88.3-95.6 18 7.2 4.4-11.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 138 113 80.4 71.0-87.3 25 19.6 12.7-29.0

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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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