2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 989 117 13.0 10.0-16.6 872 87.0 83.4-90.0
GENDER
Male 467 51 12.8 8.7-18.3 416 87.2 81.7-91.3
Female 522 66 13.1 9.3-18.3 456 86.9 81.7-90.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 517 46 10.3 7.3-14.4 471 89.7 85.6-92.7
Non-Hispanic Black 186 23 14.9 8.3-25.4 163 85.1 74.6-91.7
Other 259 44 20.7 12.8-31.7 215 79.3 68.3-87.2
AGE
18-44 351 63 17.9 12.8-24.4 288 82.1 75.6-87.2
45-64 327 39 12.9 8.2-19.7 288 87.1 80.3-91.8
65+ 296 15 4.4 2.0- 9.2 281 95.6 90.8-98.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 344 55 14.8 9.9-21.8 289 85.2 78.2-90.1
Some Post-H.S. 325 41 15.9 10.9-22.5 284 84.1 77.5-89.1
College Graduate 317 20 5.0 2.6- 9.4 297 95.0 90.6-97.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 372 79 23.8 17.8-30.9 293 76.2 69.1-82.2
$50,000+ 387 17 4.2 2.3- 7.4 370 95.8 92.6-97.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 221 20 11.8 5.9-22.2 201 88.2 77.8-94.1

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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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