Note the opening sentence posted on the Health Resources & Services Administration website: "Vaccines save lives by preventing disease." If that's the case, then how do you account for the more than $3.6 billion dollars that have been paid out of the vaccine injury fund since 1988?
-NW

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
National Vaccine Information Center
http://www.nvic.org/injury-compensation.aspx

This webpage provides information on how to file a vaccine injury claim, links and resources on vaccine injury compensation to aid those who believe that they have suffered a vaccine injury and to raise awareness of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

NVIC's co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which acknowledged that vaccine injuries and deaths are real and that the vaccine injured and their families should be financially supported and that vaccine safety protections were needed in the mass vaccination system.

The law preserved the right for vaccine injured persons to bring a lawsuit in the court system if federal compensation is denied or is not sufficient. By 2010, the U.S. Court of Claims had awarded nearly $3 billion dollars (that disbursed amount has increased to over $3.6 billion to date) to vaccine victims for their catastrophic vaccine injuries, although two out of three applicants have been denied compensation.

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Excerpt from an HRSA PDF document: Click here

"Since 1988, over 17,935 petitions have been filed with the VICP. Over that 27-year time period, 16,187 petitions have been adjudicated, with 5,269 of those determined to be compensable, while 10,918 were dismissed. Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $3.6 billion."