What's the difference between medical insurance and social security? Is it a card?

Medical insurance and social security are not the same card, but have different functions and application scopes.

Medical insurance card is a special card for medical insurance reimbursement. The insured person can take the medical insurance card to seek medical treatment and purchase medicines in designated medical institutions and enjoy the corresponding medical insurance benefits. Social security cards are used to handle various social insurance businesses, including endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance. Although both medical insurance and social security are aimed at protecting citizens' rights and interests, their functions and scope of use are different. So medical insurance and social security are not the same card.

The difference between medical insurance and social security is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1, the concept is different: social security is the abbreviation of social insurance, which is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for people who have lost their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. Medical insurance is the abbreviation of medical insurance, which is an insurance to compensate medical expenses caused by diseases.

2. Different functions: Social security can provide economic security for the insured within the scope of basic medical insurance, basic old-age insurance, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance. The role of medical insurance is mainly to ensure that patients can pay medical expenses when they are sick.

To sum up, medical insurance and social security are not a card, they have different functions and application scope.

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.