2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 869 748 85.0 81.6-87.9 121 15.0 12.1-18.4
GENDER
Male 400 330 81.9 76.5-86.3 70 18.1 13.7-23.5
Female 469 418 88.0 83.4-91.5 51 12.0 8.5-16.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 550 501 90.3 86.6-93.1 49 9.7 6.9-13.4
Non-Hispanic Black 236 200 82.1 73.9-88.2 36 17.9 11.8-26.1
Other 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 267 204 80.3 74.5-85.1 63 19.7 14.9-25.5
45-64 316 264 82.4 75.8-87.6 52 17.6 12.4-24.2
65+ 274 270 98.1 90.6-99.7 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 354 271 78.2 72.6-83.0 83 21.8 17.0-27.4
Some Post-H.S. 258 233 88.8 82.2-93.1 25 11.2 6.9-17.8
College Graduate 256 243 93.5 87.9-96.6 13 6.5 3.4-12.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 428 354 80.5 75.0-85.0 74 19.5 15.0-25.0
$50,000+ 273 260 96.3 93.1-98.0 13 3.7 2.0- 6.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 161 132 81.8 73.0-88.2 29 18.2 11.8-27.0

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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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