RFK Jr.’s vaccine crusade put critical program and public health in danger |
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is determined to expand his unprecedented assault on healthcare and patient choice. He’s already played dangerous games with vaccine access and made it more difficult for Americans to access lifesaving drugs.
His latest target is a program that has long protected patients by spurring the development of vaccines that banish once-deadly ailments. The Trump administration should put an end to this travesty and embrace choice and innovation.
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It’s no secret that Kennedy has nothing but contempt for the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which protects vaccines from eradication by litigation. He’s called VICP “broken” and has accused it without evidence of “fail[ing] its mission.” Kennedy recently fired four of the nine members of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccinations and is poised to replace them with vaccine skeptics with deep connections to the trial bar. This new ACCV is all but certain to weaken VICP and overwhelm it, with the ultimate goal of destroying it.
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