2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 1,140 132 11.2 9.3-13.5 1,008 88.8 86.5-90.7
GENDER
Male 509 54 10.0 7.5-13.3 455 90.0 86.7-92.5
Female 631 78 12.3 9.6-15.7 553 87.7 84.3-90.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 647 55 10.2 7.7-13.4 592 89.8 86.6-92.3
Non-Hispanic Black 213 18 8.2 5.0-13.2 195 91.8 86.8-95.0
Other 266 56 17.0 12.7-22.4 210 83.0 77.6-87.3
AGE
18-44 492 77 15.2 12.0-19.2 415 84.8 80.8-88.0
45-64 367 46 10.8 7.8-14.8 321 89.2 85.2-92.2
65+ 257 *** *** *** 253 98.7 95.4-99.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 316 49 11.0 8.0-14.8 267 89.0 85.2-92.0
Some Post-H.S. 271 44 16.2 11.8-21.8 227 83.8 78.2-88.2
College Graduate 549 39 7.5 5.3-10.4 510 92.5 89.6-94.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 308 65 19.9 15.2-25.6 243 80.1 74.4-84.8
$50,000+ 545 35 6.1 4.3- 8.7 510 93.9 91.3-95.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 277 28 11.5 7.6-16.8 249 88.5 83.2-92.4

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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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