1, different uses: social security cards have a wide range of functions. Cardholders can use it for real-time settlement of personal accounts of medical insurance, handling endowment insurance affairs, applying for job registration and laid-off registration, and applying for labor ability appraisal. Residents' health cards are mainly used for identity verification, basic health data storage, inter-regional and inter-institutional medical treatment, expense settlement and financial services in the process of basic medical services.
2. Covering different groups of people: the social security card only benefits the insured, and the residents' health card covers all groups, which is the health certificate of residents for a lifetime.