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