2021 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 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 2 747 79 10.2 7.9-12.9 668 89.8 87.1-92.1
GENDER
Male 351 36 10.5 7.3-14.9 315 89.5 85.1-92.7
Female 396 43 9.8 7.0-13.7 353 90.2 86.3-93.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 534 46 8.8 6.3-12.1 488 91.2 87.9-93.7
Non-Hispanic Black 116 12 10.6 5.8-18.5 104 89.4 81.5-94.2
Other 83 18 14.8 8.7-23.9 65 85.2 76.1-91.3
AGE
18-44 263 49 15.9 11.7-21.3 214 84.1 78.7-88.3
45-64 262 26 8.5 5.5-13.0 236 91.5 87.0-94.5
65+ 207 *** *** *** 204 98.0 92.8-99.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 240 34 12.4 8.6-17.6 206 87.6 82.4-91.4
Some Post-H.S. 220 21 8.3 5.0-13.3 199 91.7 86.7-95.0
College Graduate 287 24 9.2 5.9-14.0 263 90.8 86.0-94.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 267 48 16.7 12.2-22.4 219 83.3 77.6-87.8
$50,000+ 311 12 3.8 2.0- 6.9 299 96.2 93.1-98.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 166 19 9.6 5.6-15.9 147 90.4 84.1-94.4

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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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