2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 532 56 10.6 7.7-14.3 476 89.4 85.7-92.3
GENDER
Male 238 18 7.3 4.1-12.8 220 92.7 87.2-95.9
Female 294 38 13.7 9.5-19.5 256 86.3 80.5-90.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 328 25 9.6 6.1-15.0 303 90.4 85.0-93.9
Non-Hispanic Black 122 19 11.8 7.0-19.2 103 88.2 80.8-93.0
Other 75 12 13.7 7.1-24.8 63 86.3 75.2-92.9
AGE
18-44 178 27 13.8 9.0-20.7 151 86.2 79.3-91.0
45-64 179 25 12.2 7.7-18.8 154 87.8 81.2-92.3
65+ 174 *** *** *** 170 97.4 91.2-99.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 177 27 13.4 8.9-19.8 150 86.6 80.2-91.1
Some Post-H.S. 168 22 12.6 7.6-20.3 146 87.4 79.7-92.4
College Graduate 184 *** *** *** 178 97.8 94.2-99.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 189 33 15.7 10.5-22.8 156 84.3 77.2-89.5
$50,000+ 234 *** *** *** 224 94.8 90.1-97.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 104 13 12.7 6.2-24.2 91 87.3 75.8-93.8

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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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