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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:04 PM Tuesday

Bobby Brainworm lashes out at vaccine injury program, pledges changes

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he is working to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which is aimed at compensating people who have been injured by vaccines.

“The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it. I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals,” Kennedy wrote in a lengthy post on social platform X.

Kennedy has long targeted the VICP, and his X post echoed many of his previous arguments.

He has previously said he wants to expand the program, making it easier for claimants to qualify for awards based on adverse events he claims are associated with vaccines but are not currently part of the program.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-lashes-vaccine-injury-230932363.html

How about those who got sick and died because they weren't vaccinated? I'm sure there are a lot more of those.

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Vaccine injuries don't often cause death, just debilitating conditions biophile Tuesday #1
Agree 100% SickOfTheOnePct Tuesday #2

biophile

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1. Vaccine injuries don't often cause death, just debilitating conditions
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:18 PM
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Deaths among the unvaccinated from preventable diseases is also rare, because of modern healthcare and hygiene, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also get debilitating conditions from them too.
My personal belief is that compensation for vaccine injuries should be easier to get. Maybe then people wouldn’t be afraid to get necessary vaccinations. As it is now, if you do get Gillian-Barre Syndrome from the flu shot and are unable to work, you are screwed.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,246 posts)
2. Agree 100%
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:37 PM
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I’m pro vax, but there are vaccine injuries, and it shouldn’t be hellishly hard to be compensated.

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