Can I buy vitamins to brush my social security card?

You can't buy vitamins with your social security card.

Vitamins are health foods, not medicines, and are not covered by medical insurance, so you can't swipe your social security card.

Social insurance is the most important part of the social security system. Therefore, when discussing the history of social insurance, social insurance cannot be separated from social security.

Social insurance refers to the system that the state establishes a social insurance fund through legislation to give necessary material help to workers who participate in labor relations when they lose their ability to work or are unemployed. Social insurance is not for profit. Social insurance is mainly through raising social insurance funds, coordinating and adjusting social insurance funds within a certain range, and giving necessary help to workers when they encounter labor risks. Social insurance provides basic living security for workers. Workers can enjoy social insurance benefits as long as they meet the conditions for enjoying social insurance, that is, they have established labor relations with employers or paid various social insurance premiums according to regulations. Social insurance is the core content of social security system.

Social insurance must work out a certain proportion of the insured's burden according to the probability of various risk accidents and the total payment expenditure estimated in advance according to the payment standard as the standard for determining the insurance rate. Moreover, unlike commercial insurance, the calculation of social insurance rate needs to consider more social and economic factors besides risk factors in order to obtain a fair and reasonable rate.

Article 12 of the Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The employing unit shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium according to the proportion of the total wages of employees stipulated by the state and record it in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund.

Employees shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium in accordance with the proportion of wages stipulated by the state and record it in their personal accounts.

Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees who have participated in the basic old-age insurance shall pay the basic old-age insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations and record them in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund and individual accounts respectively.