WASHINGTON — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday that he will work to “fix” the program that compensates victims of vaccine injuries, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

Kennedy, a long-time vaccine skeptic and former vaccine injury plaintiff lawyer, accused the program and its so-called “Vaccine Court” of corruption and inefficiency in a post on X. He has long been an outspoken critic of the program.

“I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals,” he wrote, adding he was working with Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Together, we will steer the Vaccine Court back to its original congressional intent.”

He said the structure disadvantaged claimants because th

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