Is medical insurance included in social security?

Medical insurance is included in social security.

Social security includes basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance. Medical insurance is just one of them. When establishing labor relations with workers, units need to pay social security fees for them in time.

Medical insurance reimbursement process:

1, go to the hospital to go through the medical insurance networking formalities with valid certificates such as medical insurance card or ID card and household registration book, and go through the settlement formalities directly when leaving the hospital;

2. Or bring relevant information to the relevant departments of the local social security center. If the audit meets the requirements after completion, it can be handled immediately.

To sum up, the social security paid by individuals at their own expense includes medical insurance. Medical insurance generally refers to basic medical insurance, which is a social insurance system established to compensate workers for economic losses caused by disease risks.

Legal basis:

Article 2 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law

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 get material help from the state and society in accordance with the law when they are old, sick, injured, unemployed and have children.

Article 2 of the Regulations on the Management of Housing Provident Fund

These Regulations shall apply to the deposit, withdrawal, use, management and supervision of housing provident fund in People's Republic of China (PRC). The term "housing accumulation fund" as mentioned in these Regulations refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units and social organizations (hereinafter referred to as units) and their employees.