2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 866 122 15.2 12.3-18.6 744 84.8 81.4-87.7
GENDER
Male 398 59 16.8 12.4-22.4 339 83.2 77.6-87.6
Female 468 63 13.6 10.2-18.0 405 86.4 82.0-89.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 547 70 14.9 11.4-19.3 477 85.1 80.7-88.6
Non-Hispanic Black 236 37 16.3 10.8-23.8 199 83.7 76.2-89.2
Other 83 15 13.2 7.0-23.4 68 86.8 76.6-93.0
AGE
18-44 266 49 18.2 13.4-24.1 217 81.8 75.9-86.6
45-64 315 55 17.4 12.4-24.0 260 82.6 76.0-87.6
65+ 273 16 6.4 3.4-11.7 257 93.6 88.3-96.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 352 64 16.3 12.1-21.5 288 83.7 78.5-87.9
Some Post-H.S. 257 37 16.2 11.2-22.9 220 83.8 77.1-88.8
College Graduate 256 21 10.9 6.7-17.2 235 89.1 82.8-93.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 425 80 21.4 16.6-27.2 345 78.6 72.8-83.4
$50,000+ 273 12 6.4 3.5-11.4 261 93.6 88.6-96.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 161 28 15.1 9.7-22.9 133 84.9 77.1-90.3

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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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