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

Legal analysis: the difference between social security card and medical insurance card lies in:

1. Social security cards have a wide range of applications, and how many social security services can they handle? The medical insurance card is only used for medical insurance-related business.

2. The issuing authority is different. The issuer of social security card is the human resources security department, and the medical insurance card is undertaken by the local designated agent bank.

The security level of social security card is higher than that of medical insurance card.

Legal basis:

Notice of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Municipality on printing and distributing the Measures for the Administration of Social Security Cards of the People's Republic of China.

Article 2 The term "social security card" as mentioned in these Measures refers to an integrated circuit card issued to the public and mainly used for government social management and public services in the fields of human resources and social security. The social security card is the electronic certificate for cardholders to enjoy social security and public employment services. It has the basic functions of information recording, information inquiry and business handling. Twentieth social security cards adopt key security technology and implement a unified national key management system. Article 5 Provincial human resources and social security departments or municipal human resources and social security departments may issue social security cards with the approval of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. No other institution or organization may issue social security cards.