Medical insurance system refers to a country or region in accordance with the principle of insurance in order to solve the problem of preventing and treating diseases of the residents to raise, distribute and use medical insurance system, including the raising, distribution and use of medical insurance fund. In China, the medical insurance system is mainly divided into three kinds, one is applicable to the enterprise employees of the labor insurance medical system, the second is applicable to the public medical system of the institution staff, the third is applicable to the rural residents of the cooperative medical system
Legal basis:
"The Chinese people's *** and the State of China's social insurance law" Article 2 of the state to establish the basic old-age insurance, the basic medical insurance, Work Injury Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Maternity Insurance and other social insurance systems, to safeguard the right of citizens to receive material assistance from the state and society in old age, sickness, work injury, unemployment, maternity and other situations in accordance with the law.