2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 720 101 15.7 12.7-19.1 619 84.3 80.9-87.3
GENDER
Male 333 34 11.5 7.9-16.4 299 88.5 83.6-92.1
Female 387 67 19.5 15.2-24.6 320 80.5 75.4-84.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 470 50 12.8 9.5-17.0 420 87.2 83.0-90.5
Non-Hispanic Black 136 25 20.6 13.7-29.8 111 79.4 70.2-86.3
Other 114 26 21.5 14.5-30.7 88 78.5 69.3-85.5
AGE
18-44 286 54 19.1 14.6-24.6 232 80.9 75.4-85.4
45-64 238 38 14.7 10.5-20.1 200 85.3 79.9-89.5
65+ 180 *** *** *** 172 91.1 79.4-96.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 247 44 18.1 13.1-24.5 203 81.9 75.5-86.9
Some Post-H.S. 219 40 18.9 13.8-25.4 179 81.1 74.6-86.2
College Graduate 249 17 7.2 4.3-11.9 232 92.8 88.1-95.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 280 64 25.9 20.3-32.4 216 74.1 67.6-79.7
$50,000+ 295 20 7.0 4.4-11.1 275 93.0 88.9-95.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 136 15 13.9 7.7-24.0 121 86.1 76.0-92.3

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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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