2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 483 43 9.3 6.6-12.9 440 90.7 87.1-93.4
GENDER
Male 217 12 5.0 2.8- 8.9 205 95.0 91.1-97.2
Female 266 31 13.5 9.0-19.6 235 86.5 80.4-91.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 317 15 6.4 3.6-11.1 302 93.6 88.9-96.4
Non-Hispanic Black 102 12 7.7 4.0-14.6 90 92.3 85.4-96.0
Other 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 171 22 13.0 8.3-19.9 149 87.0 80.1-91.7
45-64 160 16 9.0 5.3-15.0 144 91.0 85.0-94.7
65+ 147 *** *** *** 142 96.8 91.9-98.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 165 17 10.5 6.3-16.9 148 89.5 83.1-93.7
Some Post-H.S. 137 16 11.4 6.6-19.0 121 88.6 81.0-93.4
College Graduate 178 *** *** *** 170 97.4 94.7-98.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 23 16.0 10.2-24.2 126 84.0 75.8-89.8
$50,000+ 208 *** *** *** 200 94.5 88.5-97.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 11 8.1 4.2-14.9 108 91.9 85.1-95.8

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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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