Does social security include medical insurance?

Social security includes medical insurance.

Social security includes basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance. Medical insurance is just one of them. When establishing labor relations with workers, units need to pay social security fees for them in time.

The difference between social security and medical insurance;

1, with different concepts: social security card is an integrated circuit card issued by local human resources and social security departments for various business fields of human resources and social security. Medical insurance card is a special card for personal account of medical insurance, which takes personal ID card as the identification code and stores detailed information such as personal ID card number, name, gender, payment and account capital consumption.

2. Different functions: Social security card not only has the function of medical insurance card, but also is an important document for handling various social security businesses, such as receiving unemployment benefits. The medical insurance card is limited to the medical insurance function and can only be used to enjoy medical insurance benefits;

3. Different card issuing departments: medical insurance cards are undertaken by local designated agent banks, and social security cards are issued to the society by local human resources and social security departments;

4. Different security performance: the social security card has strict key management system and approval, and the security factor is high; However, the medical insurance card does not have such a management system, and the safety factor is low.

To sum up, there are obvious differences between social security and medical insurance in concept, function, card issuing department and safety performance.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

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The state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance, so as to guarantee citizens' right to receive material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law when they are old, sick, injured, unemployed and have children.

Article 24

The state establishes and improves the new rural cooperative medical system. Measures for the administration of the new rural cooperative medical system shall be formulated by the State Council.

Article 25

The state establishes and improves the basic medical insurance system for urban residents. The basic medical insurance for urban residents combines individual contributions with government subsidies. People who enjoy the minimum living guarantee, disabled people who have lost their ability to work, elderly people and minors over 60 years old in low-income families, etc. , subsidized by the government.