# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号 - English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討等） — address `suppl-4031-89/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（検討等） — Review, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4031-89/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-2 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の老人保健法（以下「新老健法」という。）第二十八条の二の規定の適用に当たって、一部負担金の額が老人の負担能力等を考慮して過大な負担になるおそれが生ずる場合においては、一部負担金の額の改定措置の在り方について総合的に検討が加えられ、その結果に基づき、必要な措置が講ぜられるべきものとする。 suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-1 In the application of the provisions of Article 28-2 of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Elderly Health Act"), in the case where there is a risk that the amount of the co-payment will become an excessive burden in consideration of the ability of the elderly to bear it, etc., the way in which the amount of the co-payment is to be revised is to be reviewed comprehensively, and necessary measures are to be taken based on the results. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に規定するもののほか、老人保健法による老人保健制度については、老人保健制度の目的を踏まえ、この法律の施行後の老人保健制度の実施状況、老人医療費の動向、社会経済情勢の推移等を勘案し、給付及び費用の負担の在り方について検討が加えられるべきものとする。 suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-2 In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, with regard to the system of health and medical services for the elderly under the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly, the way in which benefits and the bearing of expenses should be arranged is to be reviewed in light of the purpose of that system, taking into consideration the status of implementation of the system after the enforcement of this Act, trends in medical expenses for the elderly, changes in socioeconomic conditions, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第二条第二項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-2/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T105826-010, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19