How Does the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Work?

Prior to October 1, 1988, you could pursue an unrestricted lawsuit against a vaccine manufacturer if you, or your child were injured by a vaccine. After that date, including currently, you are required to apply for federal compensation prior to pursuing a lawsuit.

According to the program’s guidelines:

The system will offer to pay up to $250,000 for a vaccine-associated death.
The system will offer to pay for all past and future unreimbursed medical expenses, custodial and nursing home care; up to $250,000 pain and suffering; and loss of earned income.

These remedies surely fall far short of what is deserved and required if your child is injured, or killed, by a vaccine. You simply cannot put a price on a lost life, and a study by Harvard professor Michael Ganz found that the lifetime cost of caring for a child with autism is more than $3 million.

And yet, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, not one case related to autism has been deemed “compensable.” Only last year did the government concede that vaccines “significantly aggravated” an underlying disorder and caused “autistic symptoms” in one 9-year-old girl named Hannah Poling.

So who is actually responsible for paying whatever meager compensations that do get awarded?

Contrary to what you would think, it is NOT the vaccine manufacturers.

The system is funded by a surcharge on each dose of vaccine sold. The doctors pay the tax initially when they purchase the vaccines, but this is passed right down to the parents of the child.

So not only are the vaccine manufacturers shielded from potential lawsuits, they are not even responsible for paying one cent of the claims filed against them -- you are!

(for more info: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...m-You-Can-Give-to-Your-Pediatrician.aspx )