Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pledging a major overhaul of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, describing the system as fundamentally broken and failing its intended purpose.
What Happened: On Monday, in a post on X, Kennedy criticized the VICP for straying from its original Congressional mandate, saying that it has “devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption.”
Kennedy notes that the program was created alongside the Vaccine Act of 1986, with the sole intention of compensating those injured by vaccines “quickly and fairly,” but now the system prioritizes the “solvency of the HHS Trust Fund” over compensating victims, he says.
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Kennedy highlighted that Congress acknowledged vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe,” and expected the government to support children harmed by them.
He said this while quoting his uncle and former senator Edward Kennedy, who said, “when … children are the victims of an appropriate and rational national policy, a compassionate [g]overnment will assist them in their hour of need.”
The post also notes that it is the HHS, and not the vaccine makers, who are held accountable for vaccine-related injuries, adding that “the structure itself hobbles claimants.”
He then alleges …
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