2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 819 697 84.0 80.5-87.0 122 16.0 13.0-19.5
GENDER
Male 381 306 80.2 74.5-84.8 75 19.8 15.2-25.5
Female 438 391 87.5 82.9-91.1 47 12.5 8.9-17.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 504 454 88.5 84.7-91.5 50 11.5 8.5-15.3
Non-Hispanic Black 163 141 85.0 74.9-91.5 22 15.0 8.5-25.1
Other 152 102 63.1 53.0-72.2 50 36.9 27.8-47.0
AGE
18-44 292 226 78.5 72.8-83.3 66 21.5 16.7-27.2
45-64 261 210 80.7 73.0-86.6 51 19.3 13.4-27.0
65+ 247 244 99.1 97.0-99.7 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 312 233 73.9 67.2-79.6 79 26.1 20.4-32.8
Some Post-H.S. 248 221 89.0 83.4-92.9 27 11.0 7.1-16.6
College Graduate 258 243 95.2 91.7-97.2 15 4.8 2.8- 8.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 413 330 79.3 74.2-83.6 83 20.7 16.4-25.8
$50,000+ 254 243 95.4 91.1-97.7 11 4.6 2.3- 8.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 142 *** *** *** 26 22.7 14.0-34.6

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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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