Viewpoint—Flooding the legal zone: RFK Jr.’s not-so-secret plan to bankrupt vaccine manufacturers

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly assured Congress and Americans that he would not “take vaccines away from anybody.”

While technically true, so far, he has devised an underhanded way to accomplish exactly that by removing liability protections from vaccine manufacturers and thus eliminating any profitability from vaccine sales and induce them to stop producing vaccines. …

To ensure vaccine availability, President Ronald Reagan signed the law creating the [National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program]. Manufacturers pay 75 cents from each vaccine dose they manufacture (or sell) into a pool which is used to compensate anyone who was injured by a vaccination, without the need for lengthy lawsuits.

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The VICP is a win-win-win-win arrangement: Injured patients are fairly compensated …. Manufacturers keep producing low-cost vaccines and developing new ones …. Meanwhile, the American public stays healthy.

Kennedy understands he can take vaccines away from Americans if he makes vaccines unprofitable. If the VICP is overwhelmed by too many claims and goes bankrupt, manufacturers become financially liable.

How can Kennedy overwhelm the vaccine compensation scheme? By claiming vaccines cause autism and other complications.

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