2022 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 4,490 508 11.9 10.6-13.3 3,982 88.1 86.7-89.4
Medicaid Region 4 1,090 115 9.8 7.9-12.0 975 90.2 88.0-92.1
GENDER
Male 518 49 8.3 6.0-11.5 469 91.7 88.5-94.0
Female 572 66 11.1 8.5-14.5 506 88.9 85.5-91.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 644 53 9.0 6.6-12.1 591 91.0 87.9-93.4
Non-Hispanic Black 215 24 9.1 5.8-14.1 191 90.9 85.9-94.2
Other 207 37 15.0 10.3-21.2 170 85.0 78.8-89.7
AGE
18-44 496 72 13.6 10.5-17.5 424 86.4 82.5-89.5
45-64 362 34 8.6 5.8-12.6 328 91.4 87.4-94.2
65+ 211 *** *** *** 203 97.2 94.3-98.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 283 52 14.6 10.7-19.6 231 85.4 80.4-89.3
Some Post-H.S. 258 30 10.3 6.8-15.2 228 89.7 84.8-93.2
College Graduate 543 32 5.2 3.4- 7.9 511 94.8 92.1-96.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 295 59 18.5 13.9-24.2 236 81.5 75.8-86.1
$50,000+ 555 32 4.6 3.1- 6.8 523 95.4 93.2-96.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 232 21 9.1 5.4-14.7 211 90.9 85.3-94.6

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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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