# 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)（検討等） — address `suppl-5071-74/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-5071-74/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（検討等） — Review, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後速やかに、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の施行の状況等を勘案し、公的年金制度を長期的に持続可能な制度とする取組を更に進め、社会経済情勢の変化に対応した保障機能を一層強化し、並びに世代間及び世代内の公平性を確保する観点から、公的年金制度及びこれに関連する制度について、持続可能な社会保障制度の確立を図るための改革の推進に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第百十二号）第六条第二項各号に掲げる事項及び公的年金制度の所得再分配機能の強化その他必要な事項（次項から第四項までに定める事項を除く。）について引き続き検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1 The government is to, promptly after this Act comes into effect, taking into consideration the conditions of enforcement, etc. of each Act as amended by this Act, from the viewpoint of further advancing efforts to make the public pension system sustainable over the long term, further strengthening its security function in response to changes in the socioeconomic situation, and ensuring fairness between and within generations, continue to examine the matters set forth in the items of Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Promotion of Reform to Establish a Sustainable Social Security System (Act No. 112 of 2013) and the strengthening of the income redistribution function of the public pension system and other necessary matters (excluding the matters specified in the following paragraph through paragraph (4)), with respect to the public pension system and systems related to it, and is to take necessary measures based on the results thereof. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の施行の状況、この法律の公布の日以後初めて作成される国民年金法第四条の三第一項に規定する財政の現況及び見通し、厚生年金保険法第二条の四第一項に規定する財政の現況及び見通し等を踏まえ、国民健康保険制度の在り方等に留意しながら、厚生年金保険及び健康保険の適用範囲について引き続き検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 The government is to, in light of the state of enforcement of each Act as amended by this Act, the current state and outlook of finances prescribed in Article 4-3, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act and the current state and outlook of finances prescribed in Article 2-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, which are prepared for the first time on or after the date of promulgation of this Act, and other matters, while paying attention to the ideal form, etc. of the National Health Insurance system, continue to examine the scope of application of Employees' Pension Insurance and health insurance, and is to take necessary measures based on the results thereof. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1: 持続可能な社会保障制度の確立を図るための改革の推進に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第百十二号）第六条第二項 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000112, 第六条第二項 (Article 6, paragraph (2)), art-6/par-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1: 次項から第四項まで → 健康保険法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 - suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2: 国民年金法第四条の三第一項 → 国民年金法 第四条の三第一項 (Article 4-3, paragraph (1)), art-4-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-1 - suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2: 厚生年金保険法第二条の四第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第二条の四第一項 (Article 2-4, paragraph (1)), art-2-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-2-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 健康保険法 附則第二条第一項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261010T183826-041, 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