2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 681 92 13.0 10.4-16.3 589 87.0 83.7-89.6
GENDER
Male 327 39 10.7 7.7-14.8 288 89.3 85.2-92.3
Female 354 53 15.2 11.1-20.5 301 84.8 79.5-88.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 398 46 12.4 9.0-16.9 352 87.6 83.1-91.0
Non-Hispanic Black 141 23 13.9 8.9-20.9 118 86.1 79.1-91.1
Other 126 23 17.8 11.0-27.4 103 82.2 72.6-89.0
AGE
18-44 303 56 17.5 13.2-22.9 247 82.5 77.1-86.8
45-64 221 32 14.1 9.3-20.7 189 85.9 79.3-90.7
65+ 135 *** *** *** 131 97.6 93.5-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 185 33 15.0 10.2-21.5 152 85.0 78.5-89.8
Some Post-H.S. 194 34 16.8 11.5-23.9 160 83.2 76.1-88.5
College Graduate 297 25 7.6 4.9-11.7 272 92.4 88.3-95.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 203 59 28.2 21.5-36.1 144 71.8 63.9-78.5
$50,000+ 302 22 7.6 4.8-11.8 280 92.4 88.2-95.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 11 7.3 3.6-14.3 145 92.7 85.7-96.4

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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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