US EditionUS health chief Kennedy targets vaccine injury compensation program
UNITED STATES, JUL 29 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program corrupt and inefficient and plans reforms after the fund paid $5.4 billion to 12,000 claimants since 1986.
- Kennedy said he would 'fix' the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, working with the Justice Department to overhaul a system he described as fundamentally broken.
- Long before his HHS nomination, Kennedy was laying the groundwork for his war on vaccines, with plans to issue formal rules soon, and targeted the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
- Kennedy said, `the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption,` alleging special masters are `notoriously biased` and that the system now favors the HHS Trust Fund's solvency.
- Following the panel shakeup, CDC expert Fiona Havers resigned, Kennedy said, warning that ‘a lot of Americans are going to die.’
- Kennedy announced the U.S. will stop funding GAVI until vaccine safety is taken “seriously” and directed HHS to pay $150,000 to an Arizona law firm for expertise on the compensation program.
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