2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 579 61 13.3 9.7-17.9 518 86.7 82.1-90.3
GENDER
Male 249 24 15.8 10.0-24.0 225 84.2 76.0-90.0
Female 330 37 11.0 7.5-15.8 293 89.0 84.2-92.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 410 39 12.0 8.1-17.5 371 88.0 82.5-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 76 *** *** *** 66 90.3 81.2-95.3
AGE
18-44 184 23 14.2 8.9-21.9 161 85.8 78.1-91.1
45-64 204 37 22.6 15.2-32.1 167 77.4 67.9-84.8
65+ 180 *** *** *** 180 100 . - .
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 187 29 15.9 10.3-23.9 158 84.1 76.1-89.7
Some Post-H.S. 142 16 16.9 9.7-27.7 126 83.1 72.3-90.3
College Graduate 246 16 5.7 3.2- 9.7 230 94.3 90.3-96.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 186 32 20.8 13.6-30.4 154 79.2 69.6-86.4
$50,000+ 246 11 6.9 3.5-12.9 235 93.1 87.1-96.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 139 17 14.7 8.0-25.5 122 85.3 74.5-92.0

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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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