MALLORCA TODAY - New health card "pathetic"

Reaction to the announcement of the introduction of the new health card in the Balearics has been swift and damning, the patient ombudsman saying that a justification for the card (which will cost ten euros) that it will control fraud is "a pathetic excuse". Indeed it is hard to understand what fraud it is supposed to actually control. Meanwhile, it appears that though the new card can be bought as from 2 January, it won't actually be issued for a few months as the process of public tendering for the project has to be gone through. Why introduce the card, therefore, without this process having been undergone?