National Medical Insurance Bureau: Improve and perfect system exploration to incorporate flexible employment personnel into the coverage of maternity insurance

CCTV News: For groups with stable jobs, the protection in all aspects is relatively complete, but there are many flexible employment people in the society that have no maternity insurance. In response, the relevant person in charge of the National Medical Insurance Bureau stated that the "Guidance Opinions" clearly stated that localities can explore flexible employment personnel into the coverage of maternity insurance to better protect their medical and maternity security rights.

Liu Juan, deputy director of the National Medical Insurance Bureau Treatment Security Department: First, improve the system. All parties are very concerned about the social security issues of flexible employment, because flexible employees do not have a fixed employer and are not in the legal coverage of maternity insurance. Exploring flexible employees to participate in maternity insurance is conducive to improving the system, and also reflects the tolerance of the policy. The second is to protect the fertility of flexible employment. Most women in flexible employees are at the age of fertility. They allow flexible employees to participate in maternity insurance and enjoy maternity allowances, which is conducive to strengthening the relevant protection of fertility. The third is to promote female employment in flexible employment. Flexible employment personnel are unstable, and income during fertility may be affected to a certain extent. Incorporating it into the scope of protection, it is conducive to alleviating the worries of their fertility.

The relevant person in charge of the National Medical Insurance Bureau said that with the sound and improvement of the maternity insurance and the medical insurance system, the current women's maternity medical expenses have corresponding institutional arrangements to ensure that the fund can be paid by the fund. In recent years, the number of insureds for maternity insurance has continued to increase, and the coverage has also expanded. In 2021, the number of fertility insurance participants reached 240 million, which was 1.5 times that of 2012. Medical expenses that are not employed and flexible employment women can be reimbursed by participating in basic medical insurance in accordance with the prescribed regulations.

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