Six departments including the National Health Insurance Administration, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Transport recently jointly issued a notice to launch a special campaign to improve the quality of basic medical insurance for people with flexible employment, migrant workers, and people with new forms of employment. The plan is to continue to expand the basic health insurance coverage scale for flexible workers and other groups over a period of about 3 years, with a focus on increasing the number of workers enrolled in health insurance. China will push megacities to lift household registration restrictions on flexible workers enrolling in insurance. On the basis of ensuring the balance of income and expenditure of health insurance funds, each region can reasonably determine the health insurance contribution base for people with flexible employment by referring to the basic pension insurance contribution base for local workers. Flexible workers participate in employee health insurance. The payment period can be accumulated on a monthly basis, and every 12 months completed is converted into a 1-year payment period. A relevant person in charge of the National Health Insurance Administration said that since many flexible workers who work outside the home may pay employee health insurance intermittently every year, the policy allows employees' health insurance payment periods to be accumulated on a monthly basis, and all scattered payment periods are included in the employees' health insurance payment period. If an insured person has reached the legal retirement age and has met the prescribed contribution period, they can enjoy retirement health insurance benefits; if the payment period is insufficient, they will be paid up to the specified period in accordance with the relevant regulations of the co-ordinating region. All regions are encouraged to explore how many years of continuous payment of residents' health insurance can be converted into the health insurance payment period for local workers. The discount ratio is determined in conjunction with the local funding level.

Six departments including the National Health Insurance Administration, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Transport recently jointly issued a notice to launch a special campaign to improve the quality of basic medical insurance for people with flexible employment, migrant workers, and people with new forms of employment. The plan is to continue to expand the basic health insurance coverage scale for flexible workers and other groups over a period of about 3 years, with a focus on increasing the number of workers enrolled in health insurance. China will push megacities to lift household registration restrictions on flexible workers enrolling in insurance. On the basis of ensuring the balance of income and expenditure of health insurance funds, each region can reasonably determine the health insurance contribution base for people with flexible employment by referring to the basic pension insurance contribution base for local workers. Flexible workers participate in employee health insurance. The payment period can be accumulated on a monthly basis, and every 12 months completed is converted into a 1-year payment period. A relevant person in charge of the National Health Insurance Administration said that since many flexible workers who work outside the home may pay employee health insurance intermittently every year, the policy allows employees' health insurance payment periods to be accumulated on a monthly basis, and all scattered payment periods are included in the employees' health insurance payment period. If an insured person has reached the legal retirement age and has met the prescribed contribution period, they can enjoy retirement health insurance benefits; if the payment period is insufficient, they will be paid up to the specified period in accordance with the relevant regulations of the co-ordinating region. All regions are encouraged to explore how many years of continuous payment of residents' health insurance can be converted into the health insurance payment period for local workers. The discount ratio is determined in conjunction with the local funding level.