2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,279 647 15.9 14.7-17.3 3,632 84.1 82.7-85.3
Medicaid Region 1 527 76 15.9 12.3-20.2 451 84.1 79.8-87.7
GENDER
Male 269 42 18.0 12.8-24.7 227 82.0 75.3-87.2
Female 258 34 13.9 9.5-19.8 224 86.1 80.2-90.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 424 53 14.8 11.1-19.6 371 85.2 80.4-88.9
Non-Hispanic Black 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 158 40 29.0 21.3-38.1 118 71.0 61.9-78.7
45-64 183 26 11.3 7.3-17.1 157 88.7 82.9-92.7
65+ 177 *** *** *** 168 96.0 91.5-98.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 27 16.6 10.9-24.5 149 83.4 75.5-89.1
Some Post-H.S. 154 21 16.3 10.3-25.0 133 83.7 75.0-89.7
College Graduate 197 28 14.1 9.6-20.3 169 85.9 79.7-90.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 233 45 20.7 14.9-27.9 188 79.3 72.1-85.1
$50,000+ 172 16 9.5 5.4-16.0 156 90.5 84.0-94.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 116 15 15.8 8.8-26.7 101 84.2 73.3-91.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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