Legal analysis: public welfare is an important item of social welfare, and it is a public welfare facility and related services provided by the state and society to meet the basic needs of all social members in material and spiritual life. The content of public welfare is very extensive, involving all aspects of people's lives. Education welfare, health welfare, cultural and entertainment welfare and housing welfare all belong to public welfare.

Legal basis: temporary measures of social assistance

Article 27 The state establishes and improves the medical assistance system to ensure that medical assistance recipients can obtain basic medical and health services.

Thirtieth applications for medical assistance shall be submitted to the Township People's governments and sub-district offices. After examination and publicity, it shall be examined and approved by the medical security department of the people's government at the county level. The medical assistance for the family members of the minimum living guarantee and the destitute dependents shall be directly handled by the medical security department of the people's government at the county level.

Thirty-first people's governments at or above the county level shall establish and improve the medical expenses settlement mechanism linking medical assistance with basic medical insurance and serious illness insurance, and provide convenient services for medical assistance recipients.