# 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） — address `suppl-4181-83/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/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/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/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/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/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 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 **第二項** 高齢者医療確保法による高齢者医療制度については、制度の実施状況、保険給付に要する費用の状況、社会経済の情勢の推移等を勘案し、第七条の規定の施行後五年を目途としてその全般に関して検討が加えられ、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が講ぜられるべきものとする。 suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-2/par-2 With regard to the medical insurance system for the elderly under the Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, taking into account the status of implementation of the system, the status of the expenses required for insurance benefits, changes in socioeconomic conditions, etc., a review of the whole of it is to be conducted with a target of five years after the enforcement of the provisions of Article 7, and, if it is found necessary, required measures are to be taken based on the results. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第一条第一項第四号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-1/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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-20261019T112331-017, 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