Kennedy targets vaccination injury program

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is targeting a little-known but crucial program that underpins all childhood vaccinations.  

Kennedy took to social media and the show of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week to rail against the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and pledge significant changes. 

“The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it,” he wrote on the social platform X. “I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals.”  

Attorneys and other experts say Kennedy is right that the program, which was created in 1986 in order to give quick payouts to families who can prove a child was injured from a vaccine, is badly in need of modernization.