2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 582 55 9.5 6.9-12.9 527 90.5 87.1-93.1
GENDER
Male 276 22 7.5 4.6-11.9 254 92.5 88.1-95.4
Female 306 33 11.4 7.5-16.8 273 88.6 83.2-92.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 23 5.7 3.6- 8.7 343 94.3 91.3-96.4
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** 95 91.7 81.8-96.5
Other 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 221 24 9.3 5.8-14.5 197 90.7 85.5-94.2
45-64 186 27 15.4 9.8-23.3 159 84.6 76.7-90.2
65+ 170 *** *** *** 166 96.6 89.7-98.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 209 29 12.5 8.1-18.7 180 87.5 81.3-91.9
Some Post-H.S. 164 16 9.3 5.1-16.4 148 90.7 83.6-94.9
College Graduate 208 *** *** *** 198 94.9 90.0-97.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 183 26 15.1 9.5-23.1 157 84.9 76.9-90.5
$50,000+ 267 17 5.8 3.5- 9.5 250 94.2 90.5-96.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 126 12 10.4 5.1-20.0 114 89.6 80.0-94.9

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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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