2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 886 111 12.3 9.9-15.1 775 87.7 84.9-90.1
GENDER
Male 415 54 12.6 9.3-16.9 361 87.4 83.1-90.7
Female 471 57 11.9 8.8-16.0 414 88.1 84.0-91.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 500 39 9.0 6.3-12.6 461 91.0 87.4-93.7
Non-Hispanic Black 178 12 7.7 3.6-15.6 166 92.3 84.4-96.4
Other 199 58 27.4 20.9-35.1 141 72.6 64.9-79.1
AGE
18-44 367 71 17.6 13.6-22.4 296 82.4 77.6-86.4
45-64 285 33 10.6 6.9-15.9 252 89.4 84.1-93.1
65+ 212 *** *** *** 206 97.2 93.2-98.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 256 57 19.1 14.2-25.1 199 80.9 74.9-85.8
Some Post-H.S. 222 21 9.5 5.7-15.6 201 90.5 84.4-94.3
College Graduate 402 33 8.0 5.5-11.5 369 92.0 88.5-94.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 246 44 17.8 12.7-24.4 202 82.2 75.6-87.3
$50,000+ 429 38 8.9 6.2-12.6 391 91.1 87.4-93.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 201 29 13.7 8.8-20.7 172 86.3 79.3-91.2

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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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