2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because you could not afford it?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,924 493 10.6 9.6-11.8 4,431 89.4 88.2-90.4
Medicaid Region 5 1,188 115 11.1 9.0-13.6 1,073 88.9 86.4-91.0
GENDER
Male 527 41 8.1 5.7-11.6 486 91.9 88.4-94.3
Female 661 74 13.8 10.6-17.8 587 86.2 82.2-89.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 659 50 9.2 6.7-12.4 609 90.8 87.6-93.3
Non-Hispanic Black 270 35 14.3 9.6-20.7 235 85.7 79.3-90.4
Other 242 29 13.5 8.6-20.6 213 86.5 79.4-91.4
AGE
18-44 375 54 14.3 10.6-19.0 321 85.7 81.0-89.4
45-64 356 45 12.6 9.0-17.4 311 87.4 82.6-91.0
65+ 427 16 4.0 2.2- 7.0 411 96.0 93.0-97.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 433 55 14.5 10.8-19.3 378 85.5 80.7-89.2
Some Post-H.S. 345 36 10.8 7.5-15.4 309 89.2 84.6-92.5
College Graduate 404 24 5.3 3.3- 8.3 380 94.7 91.7-96.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 469 72 18.4 14.3-23.4 397 81.6 76.6-85.7
$50,000+ 444 15 3.4 1.9- 6.3 429 96.6 93.7-98.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 272 26 11.7 7.4-18.1 246 88.3 81.9-92.6

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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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