Vaccine Injury Compensation: Government's Broken Social Contract with Parents by Barbara Loe Fisher

Vaccine Injury Compensation:

Government's Broken Social Contract with Parents

 

by Barbara Loe Fisher

 

Congress created the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986 as a social contract between government and parents, who are required to give their children federally recommended vaccines to attend school. Since 1995, the vaccine injury compensation program set up under the law has been systematically gutted by government officials, who vigorously opposed passage of the law in 1986 and have been determined to destroy it ever since.

 

After the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011 effectively completely shielded the pharmaceutical industry from civil liability for injuries and deaths caused by FDA licensed vaccines, there has been no legal accountability for any corporation or individual who develops, licenses, recommends, promotes, administers or mandates vaccines that injure and kill Americans.

 

The history of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act is one that has been marked by a profound betrayal of the public trust by government. Every one of the promises made to parents 30 years ago in that social contract have been broken, and "simple justice for children" has turned out to be a lie. Over the past three decades, government agencies and their pharmaceutical and medical trade industry partners have turned the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act into a drug company stockholder's dream and a parent's worst nightmare...