2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 615 73 12.4 9.5-16.0 542 87.6 84.0-90.5
GENDER
Male 279 25 9.0 5.8-13.9 254 91.0 86.1-94.2
Female 336 48 15.5 11.2-21.1 288 84.5 78.9-88.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 397 35 9.8 6.8-13.9 362 90.2 86.1-93.2
Non-Hispanic Black 103 13 14.1 7.7-24.6 90 85.9 75.4-92.3
Other 112 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 215 39 18.9 13.3-26.0 176 81.1 74.0-86.7
45-64 201 29 11.8 7.9-17.3 172 88.2 82.7-92.1
65+ 185 *** *** *** 180 97.2 92.9-98.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 208 40 16.7 11.5-23.5 168 83.3 76.5-88.5
Some Post-H.S. 167 21 13.0 8.1-20.3 146 87.0 79.7-91.9
College Graduate 234 11 5.6 2.9-10.4 223 94.4 89.6-97.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 206 34 17.4 11.8-24.9 172 82.6 75.1-88.2
$50,000+ 244 18 8.9 5.3-14.6 226 91.1 85.4-94.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 21 12.7 7.9-19.9 135 87.3 80.1-92.1

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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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