# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)
- Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号
- English title "Health Insurance Act": 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） — address `suppl-4181-83/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/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） — Review
caption: machine translation, not official
suppl-4181-83/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-2
**第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、この法律の施行の状況等を勘案し、この法律により改正された医療保険各法及び第七条の規定による改正後の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（以下「高齢者医療確保法」という。）の規定に基づく規制の在り方について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-1
Aiming at five years after the enforcement of this Act, the government is to take into account the status of the enforcement of this Act, etc., review how the regulations based on the provisions of the respective medical insurance Acts amended by this Act and the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as amended by the provisions of Article 7 (hereinafter referred to as the "Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act") should be, and, if it finds it necessary, take required measures based on the results.
machine translation, not official
---
## Sources
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-024, translated 2026-10-11
- This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10