2023 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 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Medicaid Region 3 528 57 10.0 7.3-13.5 471 90.0 86.5-92.7
GENDER
Male 252 29 10.5 6.7-16.0 223 89.5 84.0-93.3
Female 276 28 9.6 6.2-14.6 248 90.4 85.4-93.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 300 19 7.1 4.2-11.7 281 92.9 88.3-95.8
Non-Hispanic Black 115 15 8.9 4.9-15.6 100 91.1 84.4-95.1
Other 101 22 22.8 14.0-34.9 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 211 32 13.2 8.8-19.3 179 86.8 80.7-91.2
45-64 169 20 10.8 6.4-17.9 149 89.2 82.1-93.6
65+ 137 *** *** *** 133 98.6 96.0-99.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 152 26 15.4 9.9-23.2 126 84.6 76.8-90.1
Some Post-H.S. 143 15 7.6 4.2-13.4 128 92.4 86.6-95.8
College Graduate 228 16 6.8 3.5-12.7 212 93.2 87.3-96.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 156 32 19.8 13.1-28.8 124 80.2 71.2-86.9
$50,000+ 245 15 5.4 2.9- 9.8 230 94.6 90.2-97.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 *** *** *** 111 92.5 84.9-96.5

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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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