2022 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 4,490 508 11.9 10.6-13.3 3,982 88.1 86.7-89.4
Medicaid Region 6 592 58 10.3 7.5-13.9 534 89.7 86.1-92.5
GENDER
Male 271 19 6.2 3.7-10.2 252 93.8 89.8-96.3
Female 321 39 14.2 9.6-20.6 282 85.8 79.4-90.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 374 26 7.7 5.0-11.7 348 92.3 88.3-95.0
Non-Hispanic Black 126 17 14.8 8.1-25.5 109 85.2 74.5-91.9
Other 77 14 14.0 7.7-24.1 63 86.0 75.9-92.3
AGE
18-44 210 26 11.9 7.9-17.4 184 88.1 82.6-92.1
45-64 186 23 13.2 7.2-22.9 163 86.8 77.1-92.8
65+ 185 *** *** *** 176 95.4 90.3-97.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 214 31 12.5 8.2-18.6 183 87.5 81.4-91.8
Some Post-H.S. 177 17 10.0 5.4-17.7 160 90.0 82.3-94.6
College Graduate 199 *** *** *** 189 94.4 88.1-97.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 232 37 15.3 10.3-22.2 195 84.7 77.8-89.7
$50,000+ 227 12 4.7 2.6- 8.5 215 95.3 91.5-97.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 129 *** *** *** 120 90.1 79.6-95.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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