2020 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 5,826 634 11.5 10.4-12.5 5,192 88.5 87.5-89.6
Medicaid Region 2 937 88 10.6 8.3-13.4 849 89.4 86.6-91.7
GENDER
Male 425 35 8.9 6.1-13.0 390 91.1 87.0-93.9
Female 512 53 12.1 8.8-16.4 459 87.9 83.6-91.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 658 51 8.8 6.4-12.0 607 91.2 88.0-93.6
Non-Hispanic Black 151 16 12.6 7.2-21.2 135 87.4 78.8-92.8
Other 128 21 17.6 10.3-28.5 107 82.4 71.5-89.7
AGE
18-44 289 41 14.0 9.9-19.4 248 86.0 80.6-90.1
45-64 325 34 9.4 6.4-13.6 291 90.6 86.4-93.6
65+ 303 11 5.8 2.6-12.7 292 94.2 87.3-97.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 324 46 14.3 10.1-19.9 278 85.7 80.1-89.9
Some Post-H.S. 285 27 10.6 6.9-15.8 258 89.4 84.2-93.1
College Graduate 327 15 5.1 2.9- 8.8 312 94.9 91.2-97.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 401 57 15.5 11.4-20.5 344 84.5 79.5-88.6
$50,000+ 331 19 7.6 4.5-12.5 312 92.4 87.5-95.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 188 11 5.8 2.7-12.2 177 94.2 87.8-97.3

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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