Is the basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents social security?

Medical insurance for urban and rural residents belongs to social security and medical insurance in social insurance. Because the basic medical insurance for urban residents is an important part of medical insurance in social insurance, it is mainly based on individual contributions, and then the government gives appropriate subsidies, thus providing the most basic medical needs for urban residents. However, it is worth noting that there is still a difference between medical insurance and social security for urban and rural residents.

By definition, urban residents are mainly aimed at minors who have not participated in medical insurance for urban workers, while social security is an insurance product that provides compensation for those who have lost their ability to work and temporarily lost their jobs.

They cover different objects and different projects, but the scope of social security is obviously wider, including medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work injury insurance, maternity insurance and so on. And urban medical insurance is just medical insurance.

Urban residents' medical insurance is a medical insurance system with urban minors and unemployed residents who have not participated in urban workers' medical insurance as the main participants. It is an important measure to further solve the medical security problems of the broad masses of people and continuously improve the medical security system after the implementation of the basic medical insurance system for urban workers and the new rural cooperative medical system.

Mainly to make institutional arrangements for medical insurance for urban non-employed residents. The appearance of this system is of great significance in the process of social insurance system reform in China, which points out the direction for the reform of social insurance system in China.