2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 886 111 13.2 10.7-16.3 775 86.8 83.7-89.3
GENDER
Male 424 46 10.9 8.0-14.8 378 89.1 85.2-92.0
Female 462 65 15.4 11.5-20.3 397 84.6 79.7-88.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 537 41 8.7 6.2-12.0 496 91.3 88.0-93.8
Non-Hispanic Black 203 44 22.0 15.3-30.5 159 78.0 69.5-84.7
Other 146 26 18.2 11.8-27.1 120 81.8 72.9-88.2
AGE
18-44 362 52 15.6 11.4-21.0 310 84.4 79.0-88.6
45-64 293 42 12.4 8.9-17.0 251 87.6 83.0-91.1
65+ 214 15 8.7 4.6-15.9 199 91.3 84.1-95.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 278 54 17.7 13.2-23.3 224 82.3 76.7-86.8
Some Post-H.S. 190 30 17.5 11.3-26.1 160 82.5 73.9-88.7
College Graduate 417 27 6.3 4.1- 9.4 390 93.7 90.6-95.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 311 69 21.9 17.1-27.8 242 78.1 72.2-82.9
$50,000+ 393 21 6.8 3.8-11.9 372 93.2 88.1-96.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 173 21 14.3 8.8-22.3 152 85.7 77.7-91.2

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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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