# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（国の責務） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（国の責務） — (Responsibilities of the State) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-3 **第一項** 国は、国民の高齢期における医療に要する費用の適正化を図るための取組が円滑に実施され、高齢者医療制度（第三章に規定する前期高齢者に係る保険者間の費用負担の調整及び第四章に規定する後期高齢者医療制度をいう。以下同じ。）の運営が健全に行われるよう必要な各般の措置を講ずるとともに、第一条に規定する目的の達成に資するため、医療、公衆衛生、社会福祉その他の関連施策を積極的に推進しなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-3/par-1 The national government must take all necessary measures to ensure the smooth implementation of efforts to ensure the appropriateness of the expenses required for medical care by citizens in old age and the sound operation of the medical insurance system for the elderly (meaning the adjustment of the sharing of expenses among insurers pertaining to the young-old provided for in Chapter III and the medical insurance system for the old-old provided for in Chapter IV; the same applies hereinafter), and actively promote medical care, public health, social welfare, and other related measures in order to contribute to the achievement of the purpose provided for in Article 1. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1: 第一条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-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 第六条第一項（医療の担い手等の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-6/par-1 --- ## 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 - 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