How to apply for medical insurance card for newborns in rural areas

The process of applying for a health insurance card for a newborn baby in a rural area is as follows:

1, apply for household registration for the newborn baby. Only after the newborn obtains the city's household registration, will be eligible to participate in the infant health insurance;

2, to the local health insurance service point for the newborn to apply for the insurance procedures, while paying the appropriate fees. During the enrollment procedure, parents should provide the staff with the original and photocopies of the family register and birth certificate;

3. Receive a voucher for outpatient medical care. This voucher includes the Social Security Card and the Medical Record Book;

4. Receive the voucher for inpatient medical care. This voucher refers to the Medical Certificate of the Children's Hospitalization Fund.

Individuals who have participated in the basic old-age pension insurance and have accumulated fifteen years of contributions by the time they reach the legal retirement age will receive the basic old-age pension on a monthly basis.

Individuals who have participated in basic pension insurance and have accumulated contributions for less than fifteen years by the time they reach the legal retirement age may contribute until they reach the full fifteen-year limit and receive a basic pension on a monthly basis; they may also be transferred to the new type of rural social pension insurance or the urban residents' social pension insurance, and will enjoy the corresponding pension insurance benefits in accordance with the provisions of the State Council.

Medical insurance, generally referred to as basic medical insurance, is a social insurance system established to compensate workers for economic losses caused by the risk of illness. A medical insurance fund is established through contributions from employers and individuals, and medical insurance organizations provide certain financial compensation to insured persons after they incur medical expenses for illnesses.

Medical insurance, in the traditional sense, refers to a specific organization or institution, through the policies and regulations with mandatory or voluntary contract, in a certain area of a certain group of participants to raise medical insurance fund.

Medical insurance has the basic characteristics of social insurance, such as compulsory, mutual aid and social. Therefore, the medical insurance system is usually legislated by the state, mandatory implementation, the establishment of a fund system, the cost of the employer and the individual **** the same payment, medical insurance premiums paid by the medical insurance organization, in order to solve the workers due to illness or injury brought about by the medical risk.

Legal Basis

The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 24 The State establishes and improves the new rural cooperative medical system.

Methods for the administration of new rural cooperative medical care shall be prescribed by the State Council.