2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 884 772 87.6 84.9-90.0 112 12.4 10.0-15.1
GENDER
Male 423 373 88.9 84.9-91.9 50 11.1 8.1-15.1
Female 461 399 86.5 82.4-89.8 62 13.5 10.2-17.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 537 512 95.2 92.5-97.0 25 4.8 3.0- 7.5
Non-Hispanic Black 202 170 81.7 74.3-87.4 32 18.3 12.6-25.7
Other 145 90 64.5 55.0-72.9 55 35.5 27.1-45.0
AGE
18-44 361 292 82.2 77.4-86.2 69 17.8 13.8-22.6
45-64 292 255 89.6 85.1-92.9 37 10.4 7.1-14.9
65+ 214 210 97.9 92.6-99.5 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 277 201 76.1 70.0-81.3 76 23.9 18.7-30.0
Some Post-H.S. 189 166 89.4 83.5-93.3 23 10.6 6.7-16.5
College Graduate 417 404 97.4 95.3-98.5 13 2.6 1.5- 4.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 310 248 80.8 75.2-85.3 62 19.2 14.7-24.8
$50,000+ 392 383 96.7 93.3-98.4 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 173 134 79.1 71.1-85.3 39 20.9 14.7-28.9

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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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