2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 523 57 15.2 10.7-21.0 466 84.8 79.0-89.3
GENDER
Male 244 28 16.0 9.6-25.6 216 84.0 74.4-90.4
Female 279 29 14.3 8.4-23.5 250 85.7 76.5-91.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 419 40 14.0 9.3-20.5 379 86.0 79.5-90.7
Non-Hispanic Black 21 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 147 25 19.1 11.9-29.2 122 80.9 70.8-88.1
45-64 189 27 18.2 10.5-29.6 162 81.8 70.4-89.5
65+ 178 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 181 28 23.4 15.0-34.7 153 76.6 65.3-85.0
Some Post-H.S. 140 17 11.3 6.3-19.6 123 88.7 80.4-93.7
College Graduate 200 12 6.0 3.3-10.6 188 94.0 89.4-96.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 207 34 25.0 16.0-36.9 *** *** ***
$50,000+ 198 11 6.6 2.8-14.9 187 93.4 85.1-97.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 118 12 12.2 6.5-21.7 106 87.8 78.3-93.5

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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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