2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Medicaid Region 1 507 51 12.3 8.6-17.3 456 87.7 82.7-91.4
GENDER
Male 211 14 7.5 3.9-14.0 197 92.5 86.0-96.1
Female 296 37 16.9 11.1-24.9 259 83.1 75.1-88.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 414 37 12.2 8.1-17.8 377 87.8 82.2-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 122 21 20.2 13.0-30.0 101 79.8 70.0-87.0
45-64 166 23 11.7 5.8-22.3 143 88.3 77.7-94.2
65+ 208 *** *** *** 202 97.0 90.5-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 141 20 16.0 9.1-26.5 121 84.0 73.5-90.9
Some Post-H.S. 157 20 13.3 7.7-21.9 137 86.7 78.1-92.3
College Graduate 206 11 5.8 2.8-11.6 195 94.2 88.4-97.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 172 32 21.3 13.5-32.0 140 78.7 68.0-86.5
$50,000+ 207 12 6.5 3.0-13.8 195 93.5 86.2-97.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 121 *** *** *** 114 93.6 84.6-97.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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