What's the difference between social security and medical insurance?

1. The difference between social security and medical insurance is that social security includes medical insurance.

First of all, social security is the abbreviation of social insurance, which mainly includes basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance, which is what we often call "five insurances".

2. In layman's terms, social security is the insurance that companies buy for employees. Old-age care and medical care are the most important, as well as industrial injury, maternity and unemployment insurance. For the premium part, the individual pays a small part, and the unit helps us pay most.

3. What Dad said above is the social security of on-the-job employees. If he is not working, he can also buy social security, but he can only buy pension and medical insurance and pay in full.

It can be seen that social security is divided into employee social security and personal social security. Similarly, medical insurance is also divided into employee medical insurance and resident medical insurance, in which on-the-job medical insurance pays monthly and resident medical insurance pays annual.

Therefore, social security cannot be equated with medical insurance, and the scope of protection is different, but medical insurance is included in social security.