Does social security include medical insurance?

Medical insurance is a part of social security, which includes medical insurance.

Social security guarantees citizens' right to receive material assistance from the state and society in many aspects, such as old age, illness, work injury, unemployment and childbirth.

However, medical insurance only guarantees citizens' right to get material help from the state and society in medical care, and the scope of medical insurance is smaller than social security.

Social security, also known as social insurance, refers to a social and economic system in which the state provides income or compensation to those who have lost their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons in order to prevent and share social risks such as old age, unemployment, illness and death, and realize social security.

Medical insurance, the full name of social medical insurance, is a social insurance system established by the state and society according to certain laws and regulations to provide basic medical needs for workers within the scope of protection.

Social security includes medical insurance, which is just a kind of social security and the abbreviation of medical insurance.