2020 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 5,819 5,047 85.3 84.1-86.4 772 14.7 13.6-15.9
Medicaid Region 5 1,397 1,212 83.6 80.9-86.0 185 16.4 14.0-19.1
GENDER
Male 620 523 82.8 78.8-86.2 97 17.2 13.8-21.2
Female 777 689 84.4 80.6-87.6 88 15.6 12.4-19.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 809 738 89.0 86.0-91.4 71 11.0 8.6-14.0
Non-Hispanic Black 320 290 85.0 78.2-90.0 30 15.0 10.0-21.8
Other 268 184 61.8 53.8-69.2 84 38.2 30.8-46.2
AGE
18-44 453 328 70.9 65.7-75.5 125 29.1 24.5-34.3
45-64 462 410 90.3 87.0-92.8 52 9.7 7.2-13.0
65+ 445 441 99.3 98.2-99.7 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 516 404 75.3 70.3-79.7 112 24.7 20.3-29.7
Some Post-H.S. 406 360 87.3 82.9-90.7 46 12.7 9.3-17.1
College Graduate 464 441 93.8 90.1-96.1 23 6.2 3.9- 9.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 610 496 77.8 73.3-81.8 114 22.2 18.2-26.7
$50,000+ 484 458 91.9 87.7-94.7 26 8.1 5.3-12.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 275 236 83.1 76.3-88.3 39 16.9 11.7-23.7

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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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