Does social security include medical insurance?

Medical insurance is a part of social security, which includes medical insurance. The main items of social insurance include old-age social insurance, medical social insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.

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. The social insurance plan is organized by the government, forcing a certain group to use part of its income as social insurance tax (fee) to form a social insurance fund. Under certain conditions, the insured can get fixed income or loss compensation from the fund. It is a redistribution system, and its goal is to ensure the reproduction of material and labor and social stability. The main items of social insurance include old-age social insurance, medical social insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance. From here, we can see that there are five major insurances in social security, which is what we often call "five insurances and one gold". Medical insurance is insurance to compensate medical expenses caused by diseases. Social insurance in which employees are provided with necessary medical services or material assistance by society or enterprises due to illness, injury or childbirth.