2019 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, or Indian Health Service?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,279 3,725 85.1 83.7-86.4 554 14.9 13.6-16.3
Medicaid Region 5 551 481 88.1 84.7-90.8 70 11.9 9.2-15.3
GENDER
Male 219 176 82.9 76.7-87.7 43 17.1 12.3-23.3
Female 332 305 93.0 89.5-95.4 27 7.0 4.6-10.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 261 244 93.2 88.8-96.0 17 6.8 4.0-11.2
Non-Hispanic Black 156 141 86.6 78.3-92.1 15 13.4 7.9-21.7
Other 134 96 68.8 59.3-76.9 38 31.2 23.1-40.7
AGE
18-44 207 164 82.2 75.8-87.3 43 17.8 12.7-24.2
45-64 187 163 88.9 83.0-92.9 24 11.1 7.1-17.0
65+ 150 148 99.1 96.5-99.8 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 240 188 82.8 77.1-87.3 52 17.2 12.7-22.9
Some Post-H.S. 165 152 91.2 84.3-95.3 13 8.8 4.7-15.7
College Graduate 143 139 96.6 90.8-98.8 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 260 215 84.2 78.3-88.8 45 15.8 11.2-21.7
$50,000+ 165 159 96.6 92.6-98.5 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 117 103 87.3 78.8-92.7 14 12.7 7.3-21.2

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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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