1. In countries that people usually call free medical care, such as Canada, Britain, Russia and other countries, all citizens can get basic free medical care without paying medical insurance premiums, but they still have to pay certain fees when they see a doctor, such as registration fees.
2. In Britain and Canada, medical services outside the insurance catalogue should also be paid at their own expense. Free medical care in these countries refers to basic medical services. The government pays a lot of money, and everyone who participates in the insurance also pays part of the money in the form of taxes.
3. The medical insurance system refers to a system in which a country or region raises, distributes and uses medical insurance funds to solve the problem of disease prevention and treatment of residents according to the insurance principle. It is an effective financing mechanism for residents' medical and health care, a relatively progressive system that constitutes the social insurance system, and a widely adopted health expenditure management model in the world at present.
4. The establishment of social insurance system in western countries mostly started with medical insurance. Medical insurance began in 1883 with the Labor Disease Insurance Law promulgated by Germany, which stipulated that workers whose wages are below the limit in certain industries should be forced to join the medical insurance foundation, and the foundation should collect the funds that workers and employers should pay.
5. China's medical security system can be divided into urban medical security system and rural cooperative medical security system according to the object of enjoyment. Rural cooperative medical care originated from the "medical cooperative" in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region in the 1940s. By 1979, more than 90% production teams in China have established cooperative medical care.