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RE: Feds pushing to close lawsuit loophole that allows preganant women to sue for vaccine injury. I kid you not!

in #familyprotection • 6 years ago

I don't see any problem with it. If you are vaccine injured and can prove it you can still sue and get damages they just don't come directly from the company but from a fund established by the companies. I see this as exactly the same as the law that protects firearms manufacturers from some types of liability. A kid just got over 100 million for a vaccine injury. Otherwise no one could actually make vaccines or guns because they would spend all of their resources fighting frivolous lawsuits and we need guns and vaccines so those industries should be protected from frivolous lawsuits.

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     6 years ago 

    The money doesn't come from a fund it comes from the taxpayers!

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    Nope:

    The Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund provides funding for the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate vaccine-related injury or death petitions for covered vaccines administered on or after October 1, 1988.
    Funded by a $.75 excise tax on vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for routine administration to children, the excise tax is imposed on each dose (i.e., disease that is prevented) of a vaccine. Trivalent influenza vaccine for example, is taxed $.75 because it prevents one disease; measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, which prevents three diseases, is taxed $2.25.

    https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/about/index.html

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       6 years ago 

      A very large percentage of vaccines are government-funded, and those that aren't are still going to people who pay taxes (or their parents do.) Rich is spot on (as always.)

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      What is the percentage of vaccines that are government funded? The money for the fund comes from a tax on vaccines, to the extent that the government is the buyer of vaccines I suppose an argument could be made that that percentage of the injury fund was paid for by taxpayers. No doubt the vaccine makers mark up their product by75 cents to cover the tax and they sell some to the government, but how much?

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