Migrant workers -- this is a huge group. According to statistics from relevant departments, the total number of migrant workers in our city exceeds 2.5 million, with over 1 million in the urban area. They leave their hometowns and come to unfamiliar cities, building the prosperity of the metropolis with their sweat. However, due to the lack of health security, many migrant workers return home when they have serious illnesses and can only endure minor ailments, which hides potential public health safety and social problems that are worrying. Recently, the reporter learned from the Labor and Social Security Bureau of the city: starting from April 1st this year, migrant workers working in the urban area can participate in medical insurance! This group will no longer be the "forgotten corner" of medical insurance.
The "Interim Measures for Migrant Workers' Medical Insurance in Wenzhou Urban Area" has formulated a migrant workers' medical insurance policy with the basic principle of "low contribution rate, covering serious illness, ensuring current period, and paid by the employer". "Low contribution rate" helps to achieve broad coverage, enhancing employers' enthusiasm to participate in insurance, promoting the expansion of medical insurance coverage in our city; "covering serious illness" focuses on solving the medical expenses for migrant workers when they suffer from serious illnesses; "ensuring current period" aims to ensure the medical security rights that migrant workers should have during their employment in our city; "paid by the employer" mainly considers that migrant workers have low income, with all medical insurance premiums paid by the employer, which helps to reduce the economic burden on individual migrant workers.