Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Senator Rand Paul unveils bill to end nationwide liability protections for vaccine manufacturers
Just The News ^ | February 15, 2026 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 02/17/2026 3:33:40 PM PST by Golden Eagle

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced legislation this week that would eliminate federal liability protections for vaccine manufacturers, which is a legal shield that has been in place for four decades.

The bill, cosponsored by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

If passed, the bill will make changes to the federal law to abolish the liability shield provided to vaccine manufacturers under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which largely protects vaccine manufacturers from product liability lawsuits and requires most injury claims to be directed to a federal compensation program.

According to Paul, the bill would make pharmaceutical companies more accountable by allowing people to sue them if they believe they have been injured by vaccines.

Vaccine safety monitoring data maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that there have been millions of adverse event reports filed.

In the past, a study done in collaboration with the US Department of Health and Human Services found that the nation’s main vaccine adverse event reporting system captures fewer than 1% of adverse events.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: 5thcolumonfr; chinavirusvaccine; covidvaccine; frassistantdemocrats; frpfizershills; frtraitorslist; goldeneagle; legislation; liabilityprotection; mikelee; mrna; multiplenicks; nevertrumpingtroll; paul; randpaul; randpaulisatraitor; randpaulsucks; randspam; randstanding; stuckoncovid; stuckonfauci; vaccine

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-36 last
To: Freedom4US
The "herd" is vaccinated to protect the "owners", not the herd, and the "owners" don't care if some of the herd dies from it as long as the owners are protected.

These sociopaths don't look at The Deplorables as human.

21 posted on 02/17/2026 4:59:23 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Veto!

Truly sorry to hear that tragic story.


22 posted on 02/17/2026 5:13:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Golden Eagle

I stand with Rand on this one.


23 posted on 02/17/2026 5:14:44 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Golden Eagle

This will kill-off the production of vaccines. Glad this didn’t happen when epidemics of polio, diptheria, smallpox, typhoid were common.


24 posted on 02/17/2026 5:26:10 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dadfly

Children aren’t people? OK, if you say so.

What I’m merely pointing out is the fact you are calling for lawsuits, when it was lawsuits that precipitated this “immunity” in the first place.

Until the WuHan Lung Rot came along “anti-vaxxers” were found mostly among the left, at least in my experience. They didn’t mind LSD, but tried to avoid most chemicals and artificial ingredients.

In a population with strong herd immunity, natural or otherwise, they could get away with not immunizing their kids, and “hide” therein, because so many diseases had been effectively eradicated.

When Mr. Trump declared he was implementing a crash program to develop a vaccine for the Chinese Lung AIDS, all of the usual suspects on the left publicly stated they would refuse to take it. It was really bizarre to watch the whole thing unfold in real time. Children most of all, had no real need for the vaccine. It was interesting to watch the Boomers throw both the elderly and the toddlers under the bus, for a little perceived safety. Real Profiles In Courage on their part. Stay home and microwave their mail, and spray groceries down with bleach, draw a paycheck, and declare “we’re all in this together!”. Yeesh


25 posted on 02/17/2026 5:32:17 PM PST by Freedom4US
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Socon-Econ
Glad this didn’t happen when epidemics of polio, diptheria, smallpox, typhoid were common.

Those were actual vaccines.

26 posted on 02/17/2026 5:33:16 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Golden Eagle

I sincerely hope it passes. It’s time to put the vaccine manufacturer on notice.


27 posted on 02/17/2026 6:02:00 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PGR88

If I was younger and was raising newborns, I would not let the doctors give them any kind of vaccine. Period.


28 posted on 02/17/2026 6:03:02 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Freedom4US; Thank You Rush

humm. idk. reading you comment, i think we are more agreed than disagreed on this. but you seem to be picking a fight with me for some reason.

you say i said: ‘Children aren’t people? OK, if you say so.’

didn’t say that. i was talking about children/kids as distinct from adults, which the “Childhood” Vaccination Act specifically addresses. the CDC/Pharma approved vaccination schedule is almost entirely untested vis-a-vis, true controlled, longitudinal trials of vaxxed vs. unvaxxed. in fact, approval was often just a rubber stamp, with no testing at all. this is the problem and the cause of the disaster for our kidsl

children are a proper subset of ‘people.’

adults are a proper subset of ‘people.’

ergo distinct from the superset of ‘people.’ i choose my words with care.

children are my specific concern here because they, in many cases during the last ‘pandemic,’ couldn’t go to public school, or get medical care or participate in sports, etc., etc., without vaccination and/or wearing a mask, and or distancing 6 ft, or whatever.

‘Lawsuits were how this debacle started.’

nope. in a nutshell, this debacle began when Rockefeller took over the medical industry and supplanted doctor/patient mutual consent with industrial medicine—including the advent of big pharma. ‘The love of money is the root of all evil.’ Rockefeller and his buds saw a big opportunity.

law suits are the only cure available at this point. the problem is that in addition to the immunity the act set up a kangaroo court.

in terms of Thank You Rush’s comment. yes adults are certainly at risk too, but not in the same ways as children and their parents are. it’s a nightmare for parents with maimed or killed children to go through the vaccine courts and try to prove your adverse event’s case there, when the presumption of a proven ‘safe and effective’ childhood vaccine is against you from the git go.

adults can better fend for themselves. for instance. our family refused the vaccines, even under threat of coercion because i just said ‘over my dead body.’ as a knowledgeable adult with experience in fighting big medicine and big public health, i made a decision to resist, knowing that we could threaten to take employers to court, or we could get exemptions. we took our kids out of school and homeschooled.

kids and young parents don’t have that experience, to know they have options. for good’s sake, some hospitals would even vaccinate infants without parent’s knowledge. the system is that evil. some pediatricians refused to treat kids whose parents didn’t do the vaccinations.


29 posted on 02/17/2026 6:26:20 PM PST by dadfly
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Golden Eagle

Sen. Paul finally does something useful.


30 posted on 02/17/2026 6:30:45 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Golden Eagle; All

Where were these guys when it mattered?


31 posted on 02/18/2026 2:22:38 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Freedom4US
By the 1980s, the patents had long ran out on many of the required immunizations. They were profitable to make, but just barely. The military was finding it difficult to source enough supply. The profits were marginal, but the liability was off scale. So they stopped making them, there was little upside and a whole lot of downside.

And typical of working with government, as the government wanted more and more shots for rarer and rarer conditions, instead of paying astronomical prices for each one, they bundled each new shot with existing requirements - hence children "requiring" dozens of shots.

32 posted on 02/18/2026 4:56:48 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Freedom4US; dadfly

“”eliminate federal liability protections for vaccine manufacturers,””

Don’t know HOW the topic got turned on its head for one Freeper but hope he felt better after that lecture. He changed the simple REASON for the bill to one paragraph after another paragraph losing sight of the SPECIFIC wording in the bill...which should have been simple to understand. I guess his knowledge was supposed to impress us...


33 posted on 02/18/2026 5:58:09 AM PST by Thank You Rush
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: tennmountainman

Thank you - yes, by all means...EXCEPT GA has two democrat senators or something - LOL!!!


34 posted on 02/18/2026 6:09:30 AM PST by Thank You Rush
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Socon-Econ
Glad this didn’t happen when epidemics of polio, diptheria, smallpox, typhoid were common.

Most of which were on a downward trend, or had a near-zero death rate by the time the vaccines were widely administered. Sure, these real vaccines probably helped finish the diseases off, but they didn't do near as much as all the propaganda claiming lives saved based on their highest death rate before the vaccines were even approved, much less widely shot.
35 posted on 02/18/2026 6:38:31 AM PST by Svartalfiar (-)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Thank You Rush

Hopefully that will change!


36 posted on 02/18/2026 11:55:39 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-36 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson