# 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） — 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/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/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/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/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/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/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 conduct a review of optimizing the costs required for medical care, the scope of insurance benefits of medical insurance, and how the costs required for medical care are to be shared in accordance with the ability of subscribers, etc. to bear costs, and to take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4271-31/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261010T183826-034, 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