# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二条 (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 (Article 2)（基本的理念） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/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（基本的理念） — (Basic Principles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-2 **第一項** 健康保険制度については、これが医療保険制度の基本をなすものであることにかんがみ、高齢化の進展、疾病構造の変化、社会経済情勢の変化等に対応し、その他の医療保険制度及び後期高齢者医療制度並びにこれらに密接に関連する制度と併せてその在り方に関して常に検討が加えられ、その結果に基づき、医療保険の運営の効率化、給付の内容及び費用の負担の適正化並びに国民が受ける医療の質の向上を総合的に図りつつ、実施されなければならない。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-2/par-1 The health insurance system, in view of the fact that it is the basis for the medical insurance system, must be implemented in response to the aging of the population, changes in disease structure, changes in the socioeconomic situation, etc., by constantly examining the concept of the system in conjunction with other medical insurance systems and the medical care system for elderly persons as well as systems closely related thereto, through integrated efforts by streamlining the operation of the medical insurance, optimizing the details of benefits and sharing costs, and improving the quality of medical treatment that citizens undergo based on the results thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10