2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 606 98 17.2 13.9-20.9 508 82.8 79.1-86.1
GENDER
Male 300 38 12.6 9.0-17.4 262 87.4 82.6-91.0
Female 306 60 21.3 16.4-27.3 246 78.7 72.7-83.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 361 50 15.5 11.5-20.5 311 84.5 79.5-88.5
Non-Hispanic Black 129 22 15.6 10.0-23.6 107 84.4 76.4-90.0
Other 116 26 27.6 18.8-38.4 90 72.4 61.6-81.2
AGE
18-44 229 49 22.7 17.2-29.4 180 77.3 70.6-82.8
45-64 211 37 15.6 11.1-21.5 174 84.4 78.5-88.9
65+ 151 *** *** *** 141 93.8 88.3-96.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 181 37 22.0 15.8-29.8 144 78.0 70.2-84.2
Some Post-H.S. 173 30 17.5 12.0-24.8 143 82.5 75.2-88.0
College Graduate 252 31 11.7 8.1-16.8 221 88.3 83.2-91.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 213 52 25.9 19.7-33.3 161 74.1 66.7-80.3
$50,000+ 256 27 12.4 8.3-18.3 229 87.6 81.7-91.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 126 17 13.3 7.9-21.6 109 86.7 78.4-92.1

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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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