2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 1,051 96 9.2 7.4-11.4 955 90.8 88.6-92.6
GENDER
Male 515 37 7.7 5.4-10.8 478 92.3 89.2-94.6
Female 536 59 10.6 8.0-13.9 477 89.4 86.1-92.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 617 37 5.9 4.2- 8.2 580 94.1 91.8-95.8
Non-Hispanic Black 218 30 14.5 9.8-20.9 188 85.5 79.1-90.2
Other 197 27 13.0 8.6-19.3 170 87.0 80.7-91.4
AGE
18-44 461 46 9.4 6.8-12.8 415 90.6 87.2-93.2
45-64 339 41 12.1 8.7-16.4 298 87.9 83.6-91.3
65+ 228 *** *** *** 221 96.1 90.9-98.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 276 40 12.6 8.9-17.5 236 87.4 82.5-91.1
Some Post-H.S. 217 26 9.9 6.5-14.7 191 90.1 85.3-93.5
College Graduate 551 29 5.9 4.0- 8.6 522 94.1 91.4-96.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 327 61 17.9 13.7-23.1 266 82.1 76.9-86.3
$50,000+ 508 15 3.1 1.8- 5.3 493 96.9 94.7-98.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 212 20 10.1 6.2-16.1 192 89.9 83.9-93.8

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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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