2023 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 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Medicaid Region 4 959 87 8.5 6.7-10.7 872 91.5 89.3-93.3
GENDER
Male 440 36 7.3 5.0-10.6 404 92.7 89.4-95.0
Female 519 51 9.6 7.0-12.8 468 90.4 87.2-93.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 572 34 6.6 4.6- 9.4 538 93.4 90.6-95.4
Non-Hispanic Black 185 17 7.9 4.5-13.4 168 92.1 86.6-95.5
Other 186 34 15.1 10.1-22.1 152 84.9 77.9-89.9
AGE
18-44 377 48 11.1 8.1-15.1 329 88.9 84.9-91.9
45-64 311 32 8.6 5.8-12.7 279 91.4 87.3-94.2
65+ 259 *** *** *** 253 97.7 94.4-99.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 235 37 13.8 9.6-19.3 198 86.2 80.7-90.4
Some Post-H.S. 213 22 8.3 5.3-12.9 191 91.7 87.1-94.7
College Graduate 506 27 4.3 2.8- 6.5 479 95.7 93.5-97.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 244 43 17.4 12.5-23.8 201 82.6 76.2-87.5
$50,000+ 526 26 4.5 3.0- 6.9 500 95.5 93.1-97.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 180 16 7.8 4.3-13.7 164 92.2 86.3-95.7

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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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