2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 662 65 9.8 7.4-12.9 597 90.2 87.1-92.6
GENDER
Male 294 28 10.2 6.6-15.3 266 89.8 84.7-93.4
Female 368 37 9.4 6.5-13.5 331 90.6 86.5-93.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 410 28 7.0 4.6-10.6 382 93.0 89.4-95.4
Non-Hispanic Black 147 22 13.1 7.9-21.0 125 86.9 79.0-92.1
Other 89 12 14.6 7.7-26.0 77 85.4 74.0-92.3
AGE
18-44 218 29 11.4 7.5-16.7 189 88.6 83.3-92.5
45-64 217 27 13.2 8.4-20.1 190 86.8 79.9-91.6
65+ 208 *** *** *** 202 97.5 94.2-98.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 238 28 10.8 7.1-16.2 210 89.2 83.8-92.9
Some Post-H.S. 185 19 10.1 6.0-16.5 166 89.9 83.5-94.0
College Graduate 232 17 7.5 4.4-12.3 215 92.5 87.7-95.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 252 39 14.8 10.4-20.7 213 85.2 79.3-89.6
$50,000+ 252 *** *** *** 245 97.6 94.6-98.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 155 19 13.5 7.8-22.2 136 86.5 77.8-92.2

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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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