Is the rural cooperative medical card the same as the social security card?

Rural cooperative medical card is different from social security card.

The scope of use of rural cooperative medical care is mainly medical diagnosis or hospitalization and other medical-related security and reimbursement; Its main participants are farmers in rural areas.

The application scope of social security card covers the diagnosis and reimbursement of medical insurance, and also has financial functions, as well as multiple applications such as pension and unemployment. The insured object is the person who works in the enterprise and participates in the corresponding social insurance.

background introduction

Rural cooperative medical insurance is a medical security system created by farmers in China (agricultural registered permanent residence), which has played an important role in ensuring farmers' access to basic health services and alleviating farmers' poverty and returning to poverty due to illness.

It provides a model for common problems in the world, especially in developing countries, which is not only welcomed by farmers at home, but also well received internationally. 1974 At the 27th World Health Assembly in May, the third world countries generally expressed warm concern and great interest. In its annual report 1980 ~ 198 1, the United Nations Children's Fund pointed out that the "barefoot doctor" system in China provided primary health care in backward rural areas and provided a sample for underdeveloped countries to improve their medical and health standards.

The World Bank and the World Health Organization call China's rural cooperative medical care "a model for developing countries to solve health expenses". However, from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, due to the gradual disintegration of the rural cooperative system and the disintegration of the rural "division of labor system", barefoot doctors could not exchange work points and food and other means of subsistence by engaging in medical activities, and barefoot doctors completely lost the motivation to go out to practice medicine.

In addition, because the collapse of the cooperative can no longer provide a source of funds for the normal operation of the village health center, the public health institutions in the village can no longer support and close down. Therefore, from the perspective of barefoot doctors and village clinics, since the collapse of the cooperative system, the rural public medical mechanism has basically shown a vacuum state. In the course of nearly 50 years' development, cooperative medical care has gone through the embryonic stage in 1940s, the initial stage in 1950s, the development and peak stage in 1960s and 1970s, the disintegration stage in 1980s and the recovery and development stage since 1990s. Facing the problems encountered in the traditional cooperative medical system, the Ministry of Health organized experts and local health institutions to conduct a series of special studies, which laid a solid theoretical foundation for the establishment of a new rural cooperative medical system.

1At the end of 1996, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council held a national health work conference in Beijing. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out in his speech: "Now many rural areas have developed cooperative medical care, which has won the hearts of the people. People call it "popular support project" and "good governance". With the continuous development of China's economy and society, more and more people are beginning to realize that the "three rural issues" are fundamental issues related to the overall situation of the party and the country. Without solving the problem of farmers' medical security, the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way cannot be achieved, let alone the complete establishment of a modern society. A lot of theoretical research and practical experience also show that it is imperative to establish a new rural cooperative medical system.

The new rural cooperative medical system has been piloted in some counties (cities) in China since 2003, and will gradually cover rural residents in China by 20 10.