What is the relationship between medical insurance and social security?

The relationship between medical insurance and social security is that social security includes medical insurance and social security is the full name of a series of social insurance. Social security consists of five parts: social endowment insurance, social medical insurance, social work injury insurance, social maternity insurance and social unemployment insurance.

The difference between medical insurance and social security;

1, different ranges. Medical insurance is a kind of social insurance, which includes medical insurance and has a wider scope;

2. Different concepts. Social insurance is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for those who lose their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. Medical insurance is an insurance to compensate medical expenses caused by diseases.

3. Different roles.

Legal basis: Article 23 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Employees should participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, and employers and employees should pay the basic medical insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic medical insurance for employees and other flexible employees can participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, and individuals pay the basic medical insurance premium in accordance with state regulations.

Article 24

The state establishes and improves the new rural cooperative medical system.

Measures for the administration of the new rural cooperative medical system shall be formulated by the State Council.

Article 25

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

The basic medical insurance for urban residents combines individual contributions with government subsidies.

People who enjoy the minimum living guarantee, disabled people who have lost their ability to work, elderly people and minors over 60 years old in low-income families, etc. , subsidized by the government.