The biometric Vitale card, a false good idea

​​​​​​VS’is a measure to which the parliamentary right is very attached. As part of the 2022 amending finance law, LR senators had an amendment adopted, with the support of the government, providing for a starting bet of 20 million euros to eventually replace the good old Vitale cards with a biometric card. Intended to fight against social fraud, this new version of the famous green smart card created in 1998 would embed the fingerprint of a health insurance beneficiary to ensure that he benefits from rights to pay for his care. A popular idea, so many different figures have circulated on the existence of excess Vitale cards, supposed generators of undue refunds.

In December 2020, the ma…