2023 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 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Medicaid Region 5 977 118 12.2 9.3-15.9 859 87.8 84.1-90.7
GENDER
Male 410 38 9.5 6.1-14.6 372 90.5 85.4-93.9
Female 567 80 14.7 10.5-20.3 487 85.3 79.7-89.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 412 44 12.5 8.6-17.8 368 87.5 82.2-91.4
Non-Hispanic Black 164 20 11.6 6.3-20.5 144 88.4 79.5-93.7
Other 386 52 11.6 6.8-19.3 334 88.4 80.7-93.2
AGE
18-44 322 49 13.9 9.5-20.0 273 86.1 80.0-90.5
45-64 346 56 18.0 11.9-26.3 290 82.0 73.7-88.1
65+ 293 13 2.8 1.1- 6.7 280 97.2 93.3-98.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 319 62 19.7 13.5-27.7 257 80.3 72.3-86.5
Some Post-H.S. 303 31 8.5 5.4-13.3 272 91.5 86.7-94.6
College Graduate 352 25 6.2 3.7-10.3 327 93.8 89.7-96.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 359 71 21.9 15.4-30.2 288 78.1 69.8-84.6
$50,000+ 394 20 6.1 3.5-10.2 374 93.9 89.8-96.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 215 26 8.4 4.4-15.3 189 91.6 84.7-95.6

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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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