Is social security medical insurance?

Legal analysis: medical insurance is not equal to social security. Social security means that social insurance is divided into five categories, namely, basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, maternity insurance and unemployment insurance, while medical insurance only refers to individual items. Medical insurance refers to social medical insurance, which only refers to a guarantee for each insured person to get sick in the future. Including medical insurance for urban workers and basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law.

Article 2 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 in case of old age, illness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.

Tenth employees should participate in the basic old-age insurance, and employers and employees should pay the basic old-age insurance premium. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employer and other flexible employees can participate in the basic old-age insurance, and individuals pay the basic old-age insurance premium. The measures for the endowment insurance of civil servants and staff managed by reference to the Civil Service Law shall be formulated by the State Council.