Basic medical security system in China

Legal analysis: basic medical insurance for urban workers, cooperative medical insurance for urban and rural residents and new rural cooperative medical insurance.

Legal basis: the tasks and principles of Article 1 of the State Council's Decision on Establishing the Basic Medical Insurance System for Urban Workers.

The main task of medical insurance system reform is to establish the basic medical insurance system for urban workers, that is, to adapt to the socialist market economic system and to establish a social medical insurance system to ensure the basic medical needs of employees according to the affordability of finance, enterprises and individuals.

The principles of establishing the basic medical insurance system for urban workers are: the level of basic medical insurance should be adapted to the development level of productive forces in the primary stage of socialism; All employers and their employees in cities and towns should participate in basic medical insurance and implement territorial management; The basic medical insurance premium is shared by both the employer and the employee; The basic medical insurance fund combines social pooling with individual accounts.