2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,316 469 11.3 10.2-12.5 3,847 88.7 87.5-89.8
Medicaid Region 1 610 55 10.9 7.8-15.0 555 89.1 85.0-92.2
GENDER
Male 277 23 9.2 5.8-14.2 254 90.8 85.8-94.2
Female 333 32 12.4 7.7-19.4 301 87.6 80.6-92.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 498 34 9.7 6.4-14.4 464 90.3 85.6-93.6
Non-Hispanic Black 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 158 29 19.5 12.6-29.1 129 80.5 70.9-87.4
45-64 191 22 9.5 6.0-14.8 169 90.5 85.2-94.0
65+ 254 *** *** *** 250 98.4 94.8-99.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 186 25 15.5 9.7-23.9 161 84.5 76.1-90.3
Some Post-H.S. 176 14 7.3 3.9-13.1 162 92.7 86.9-96.1
College Graduate 246 16 9.3 4.4-18.4 230 90.7 81.6-95.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 213 34 16.8 11.5-23.7 179 83.2 76.3-88.5
$50,000+ 243 *** *** *** 235 95.6 88.5-98.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 148 *** *** *** 138 87.0 74.2-94.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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