Is the basic medical insurance for employees social security?

The basic medical insurance for employees is social security. Medical insurance and social security are together. Accurately speaking, medical insurance itself is included in social security and is a part of social security. Medical insurance generally refers to basic medical insurance, which is a social insurance system established to compensate workers for economic losses caused by disease risks. The medical insurance fund is established through the contributions of employers and individuals. After the insured person has medical expenses, the medical insurance institution will give certain economic compensation.

The establishment and implementation of the basic medical insurance system has gathered the economic strength of units and social members. With the government's funding, sick social members can get necessary material help from the society, reduce the burden of medical expenses, and prevent sick social members from "poverty due to illness". Medical insurance, like other types of insurance, collects medical insurance premiums from people threatened by diseases in advance in the form of contracts and establishes medical insurance funds; When the insured goes to a medical institution for medical treatment, the medical insurance institution will give him some economic compensation. Therefore, medical insurance also has two functions of insurance: risk transfer and compensation transfer. That is, the economic losses caused by individual disease risks are distributed to all members threatened by the same risks, and the economic losses caused by diseases are compensated by centralized medical insurance funds.