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If KangAi Commune Doesn't Guarantee Full Mutual Aid, What's the Point of Joining?

Zhang Mading1 min read

We must understand KangAi Commune's position within the overall social security system correctly.

KangAi Commune has never set out to replace social insurance or basic medical insurance, and it should never be a family's only protection against risk. Our position is to provide supplementary help to families struck by serious illness, on top of basic protections such as social insurance and medical insurance.

Social security is inherently a multi-tiered system. Basic medical insurance, critical illness insurance, medical assistance, commercial insurance, and social mutual aid each have their own role and their own limits. No single approach can solve every problem on its own.

KangAi Commune's value lies precisely in adding a layer of mutual-aid support to this system at a relatively low cost.

Even if a case set out to raise 300,000 yuan and in the end raised only 200,000, or even 100,000, that help can still mean a great deal to a family in difficulty.

Mutual aid does not promise to solve every difficulty, but it can ease some of them; it does not guarantee to eliminate risk, but it can let more people share that risk together.

Of course, not guaranteeing a full amount does not mean paying out less at will. We must keep our rules transparent and honestly explain to members the limits of what mutual aid can do.

What KangAi Commune pursues is not an absolute payment commitment bought at a high cost, but a valuable and sustainable supplement to the social security system at a cost everyone can bear over the long term.

Recognizing its own position, not exaggerating its promises, and not sidestepping its limits — these are precisely the foundations that allow KangAi Commune to keep going for the long term.

Zhang Mading
Founder, KangAi Commune
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