RFK is extending the program to the vaccine injury to cover the kids with junior autism signs
According to the leading adviser to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Trump administration is considering adding autism to the list of injuries under the federal program to compensate the victims by the vaccine.
Changes in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) have been virtually impossible for children with regulatory encephalopathy, and the HHS’s vaccine injury attorney and senior policy adviser Andrew Downing.
Speaking on Thursday, an autism organized by the MAHA Institute, he said on Thursday that he and Kennedy were one of the main issues working to include children on the neurological issue.
“Secretary Kennedy is a part of what is doing now – with my help, and a team of us is watching it – that is, we need to find a way to capture these kids,” he said.
However, the advisor suggested that the administration could not clearly add autism to the list of injuries to which people could be compensated.
“If you do not use ‘a word’, whatever, it’s okay,” Downing said to refer to autism. “How do we capture them? Do we make the definition of encephalopathic events more wide? Do we make nerve injuries more wide? How do we do that?”
A VCP was made in 1986 to make a quick payment to families who could prove that a child was injured from the vaccine. The program has paid about 5.4 billion dollars since it started.
Families get compensated through a trust fund that is worth a excise tax on vaccine manufacturers, so a limited pot of money is available here. The program’s funds include lawyers fees and expenses even to lose cases.
In exchange for taxes, vaccine makers have a limited responsibility IELD. The petitioners filed a claim against the federal government, not the manufacturers and the family manufacturers neglected and could get compensation without proof.
Experts say that the program needs to be modernized, but there is concern that Kennedy wants to bankrupt the changes or to completely tear it out, at risk of driving drug makers from the market and threatening access to childhood shots.
In the past, the HHS chief has spoken out against the program and said that he wants to speed up the resolutions and make it easier for the claimants to qualify for the award on the basis of general brain effectiveness.
Kennedy wrote in a long post on Social Platform X in July, “VCP does not work to achieve its intention.” “I will not allow Vispie to ignore his order and to fail to make the vaccine wounded in the mission to faster and fair compensation.”
To add an injury to the list, the Kennedy will have to pass through the Federal Government’s complex notice-o-commentation rules.
Experts say that it usually takes an affordable and expensive initiative and often does not show adequate evidence to prove that scientific reviews have damaged the vaccine.
Kennedy may start settling the case for further injuries without informing the list.
People can sue manufacturers outside the VICP program, so expand the program and reduce the enthusiasm for compensated for the larger different types of injuries.
