The growing number of vaccine-related autism claims could threaten to overwhelm the US government’s tax-based injury compensation program and force it into entering numerous costly settlements despite the lack of an established connection, according to federal officials.
Created by a congressional act in 1986, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was designed to provide individuals injured by a vaccine with compensation while limiting litigation and keeping vaccines widely available. The rationale was that vaccines would always be easy targets for litigation because they have inherent side effects and almost everyone is vaccinated.
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