India, Nov. 10 -- Direct Relief, in a story published Nov. 9, 2026, reported on NC MedAssist, a Charlotte-based nonprofit that supplies free prescription drugs to uninsured North Carolinians and provides free over-the-counter medicine to all, and said it has provided more than $182 million in medical aid to the organization since 2014.
Program scope and eligibility
Brenda Vass, chief executive of NC MedAssist, said some patients face an amputation before learning that insulin could have arrived in the mail for free.
NC MedAssist’s free prescription program serves uninsured residents with incomes up to 300% of the federal poverty level, a threshold Vass said the organization raised after the pandemic.
NC MedAssist reported the following ...