1, different uses: social security card: social security card has a wide range of functions. Cardholders can not only use the card for real-time settlement of medical insurance personal accounts, but also handle endowment insurance affairs; Go through the formalities of job registration and unemployment registration; Apply for unemployment insurance; Apply for employment training; Apply for labor ability appraisal and enjoy work-related injury insurance benefits; Handling labor and social security affairs online. Resident Health Card: It is mainly used for resident identification, storage of basic health information, inter-regional and inter-institutional medical treatment, expense settlement and financial services in medical and health service activities. It is the link and key to realize information exchange and sharing between residents and medical institutions, between medical institutions, between medical institutions and social public services and other related departments;
2. Different features: social security card: the national unified standard is adopted, the social security number conforms to the relevant provisions of the Social Insurance Law, and the citizenship number is adopted. Resident health card: a basic carrier of personal information that must be relied on to realize cross-system, cross-institution and cross-regional interconnection and information sharing of medical and health services, and it is a CPU card that can be recognized by computers.
The establishment and implementation of the basic medical insurance system has gathered the economic strength of units and social members. With the government's funding, sick social members can get necessary material help from the society, reduce the burden of medical expenses, and prevent sick social members from "poverty due to illness".
legal ground
People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law
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. Twenty-sixth basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with state regulations.