2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 2 500 71 16.7 12.8-21.4 429 83.3 78.6-87.2
GENDER
Male 245 27 12.9 8.2-19.7 218 87.1 80.3-91.8
Female 255 44 20.1 14.5-27.1 211 79.9 72.9-85.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 379 47 16.4 12.0-22.0 332 83.6 78.0-88.0
Non-Hispanic Black 63 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 153 38 26.2 19.0-35.0 115 73.8 65.0-81.0
45-64 191 25 10.5 6.9-15.7 166 89.5 84.3-93.1
65+ 148 *** *** *** 141 92.1 79.9-97.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 171 34 21.9 15.1-30.7 137 78.1 69.3-84.9
Some Post-H.S. 157 20 12.9 7.8-20.5 137 87.1 79.5-92.2
College Graduate 171 17 12.7 7.3-21.1 154 87.3 78.9-92.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 201 42 22.6 16.2-30.5 159 77.4 69.5-83.8
$50,000+ 184 13 7.5 4.1-13.2 171 92.5 86.8-95.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 110 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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