2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 509 73 13.4 10.2-17.4 436 86.6 82.6-89.8
GENDER
Male 236 35 13.8 9.0-20.6 201 86.2 79.4-91.0
Female 273 38 13.0 9.2-18.1 235 87.0 81.9-90.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 315 30 10.4 6.7-15.7 285 89.6 84.3-93.3
Non-Hispanic Black 104 20 17.0 10.6-26.2 84 83.0 73.8-89.4
Other 90 23 22.4 14.5-33.0 67 77.6 67.0-85.5
AGE
18-44 219 45 18.2 13.0-24.8 174 81.8 75.2-87.0
45-64 181 22 13.0 7.3-22.1 159 87.0 77.9-92.7
65+ 99 *** *** *** 95 95.5 87.9-98.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 113 23 19.1 11.5-30.1 90 80.9 69.9-88.5
Some Post-H.S. 127 23 14.7 9.3-22.5 104 85.3 77.5-90.7
College Graduate 268 27 8.5 5.7-12.5 241 91.5 87.5-94.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 138 36 25.0 17.0-35.3 102 75.0 64.7-83.0
$50,000+ 268 24 7.1 4.5-11.2 244 92.9 88.8-95.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 91 13 13.8 7.6-23.9 78 86.2 76.1-92.4

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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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