# 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-4271-31/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-4271-31/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/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-4271-31/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4271-31/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の公布後において、持続可能な医療保険制度を構築する観点から、医療に要する費用の適正化、医療保険の保険給付の範囲及び加入者等の負担能力に応じた医療に要する費用の負担の在り方等について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4271-31/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4271-31/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/art-2/par-1 After the promulgation of this Act, from the perspective of building a sustainable medical insurance system, the government is to review the appropriateness of the expenses required for medical care, the scope of insurance benefits of medical insurance, the manner of bearing the expenses required for medical care in accordance with the ability of participants, etc. to bear them, and other matters, and take necessary measures 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一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-023, 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