2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 821 126 16.3 13.2-20.0 695 83.7 80.0-86.8
GENDER
Male 383 56 15.8 11.4-21.6 327 84.2 78.4-88.6
Female 438 70 16.8 12.7-21.7 368 83.2 78.3-87.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 506 60 13.7 10.3-18.2 446 86.3 81.8-89.7
Non-Hispanic Black 163 31 19.6 12.4-29.5 132 80.4 70.5-87.6
Other 152 35 22.0 15.1-30.8 117 78.0 69.2-84.9
AGE
18-44 294 54 17.4 12.9-23.1 240 82.6 76.9-87.1
45-64 261 56 22.1 15.9-29.9 205 77.9 70.1-84.1
65+ 247 12 5.5 2.4-12.5 235 94.5 87.5-97.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 312 63 21.4 15.8-28.4 249 78.6 71.6-84.2
Some Post-H.S. 250 34 14.2 9.8-20.2 216 85.8 79.8-90.2
College Graduate 258 28 9.8 6.6-14.4 230 90.2 85.6-93.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 413 86 21.8 17.3-27.2 327 78.2 72.8-82.7
$50,000+ 255 17 5.5 3.2- 9.3 238 94.5 90.7-96.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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