Are Guangzhou Medical Insurance Card and Social Security Card the same card?

Legal analysis: social security card is different from medical insurance card, not a card. Among them, social security card is an IC card with various social security functions, including the function of medical insurance card; Medical insurance card is a special card for medical insurance. Cardholders can use medical insurance cards to enjoy services related to medical insurance, such as purchasing medicines and paying bills. Medical insurance cards can generally be activated in designated pharmacies or banks, and social security cards need to be activated in designated banks. Both need to be activated before they can be used.

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.

Twenty-sixth basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with state regulations.

Twenty-eighth medical expenses that meet the basic medical insurance drug list, diagnosis and treatment items, medical service facilities standards and emergency treatment and rescue shall be paid by the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with state regulations.