2021 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 4,822 4,338 89.7 88.6-90.7 484 10.3 9.3-11.4
Medicaid Region 5 1,165 1,060 89.2 86.5-91.4 105 10.8 8.6-13.5
GENDER
Male 518 458 87.5 83.2-90.9 60 12.5 9.1-16.8
Female 647 602 90.8 87.2-93.5 45 9.2 6.5-12.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 650 616 92.9 89.3-95.3 34 7.1 4.7-10.7
Non-Hispanic Black 266 251 90.8 84.3-94.7 15 9.2 5.3-15.7
Other 238 182 72.5 64.0-79.7 56 27.5 20.3-36.0
AGE
18-44 364 297 82.2 76.8-86.5 67 17.8 13.5-23.2
45-64 355 319 90.7 86.7-93.6 36 9.3 6.4-13.3
65+ 422 421 99.8 98.8- 100 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 424 352 81.9 76.4-86.4 72 18.1 13.6-23.6
Some Post-H.S. 339 318 92.6 88.4-95.4 21 7.4 4.6-11.6
College Graduate 399 387 96.9 94.4-98.3 12 3.1 1.7- 5.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 463 402 83.6 78.6-87.5 61 16.4 12.5-21.4
$50,000+ 441 431 96.4 91.4-98.6 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 258 225 86.0 79.5-90.7 33 14.0 9.3-20.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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