Is there a catch-up payment for Medicare now?

There is retroactive payment. Medical insurance break of course, you can make up the payment, but it is not mandatory. Resignation from the original unit, and has transferred the social security relationship from the unit to the individual, you can continue to pay social insurance premiums (including basic pension insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums, large medical insurance premiums) as a flexibly employed person, whether or not to make up for the period of interruption of the payment of social security premiums, the right to decide on your own. If you don't make up for your old-age insurance, you can combine your years of contributions before and after the interruption; if you don't make up for your medical insurance, you can't combine your years of contributions, and will have to start counting from the time you make the new contributions.

The role of medical insurance

1. It is conducive to improving labor productivity and promoting the development of production.

2. It regulates income differences and reflects social fairness.

3. It is an important guarantee for maintaining social stability.

4. An important means to promote social civilization and progress.

5. An important guarantee to promote the reform of the economic system, especially the reform of state-owned enterprises.

In summary, there is now medical social security to make up for the payment.

Legal basis:

"The Chinese People's **** and State Social Insurance Law"

Article 23

Employees shall participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, and shall pay the basic medical insurance premiums by the employer and the employees in accordance with the state regulations **** the same.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time workers who do not participate in the basic medical insurance for employees at their employing units, and other flexibly employed persons may participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, and individuals shall pay the basic medical insurance premiums in accordance with the state regulations.

Article 25

The State establishes and improves the basic medical insurance system for urban residents.

Basic medical insurance for urban residents is a combination of individual contributions and government subsidies.

The government shall subsidize the part of individual contributions required by those who enjoy the minimum subsistence guarantee, persons with disabilities who have lost the ability to work, and elderly persons over sixty years of age and minors from low-income families.