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Japanese → English transcript

Ms. Maiko Tajima. Yes, um, so in the end, right,

even if premiums for working people go down over one year,

it is about¥ 1,400 a year, roughly¥ 116 a month.

Premiums go down, but when you get a serious illness,

it might turn into a system that causes catastrophic spending.

I wonder if that is really acceptable.

How do you see this, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare?

Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Keizo Takemi.

Yes, um, this revision of the high- cost medical care benefit system,

as was mentioned earlier,

is, uh, a revision in line with the growth of medical expenses and with

burdens matched to income, and we are trying to fully implement that.

Also, we are introducing an annual cap and freezing the burden for people with

annual incomes under¥ 2 million,

and, needless to say, we have taken into account that kind of economic burden.

It is true that the impact of this revision on insurance premiums will, uh,

differ depending on the insurer that people are enrolled in.

And if we calculate this mechanically, as was explained earlier,

on average it comes to about¥ 1,400 per enrollee per year.

However, and I would really like you to understand this, generally speaking,

even if we carry out a reform on the scale of several hundred billion yen,

there are 120 million enrollees, so if you divide it out,

the premium reduction effect comes to, uh,

on the order of a few hundred yen per month. That shows just how hard it is,

even though there is talk of curbing the premium burden on the working generations,

it is in fact a very difficult and challenging issue.

In that sense, we really do have to keep building up these reforms one by one,

and by being allowed to carry them out,

we believe that will lead to restraining the premium burden,

and I hope you can understand that. Ms. Maiko Tajima. Yes, I would, um,

like you to aim to lower the insurance premiums,

but I really wonder if people who are currently

paying will actually be happy about that.

If what happens in case of emergency stayed the same, that would be one thing,

but if the burden in that kind of emergency goes up by an average of thirty- eight

percent, and then, uh, it is 1,400 yen a year, right?

I think it becomes a question of which one is better.

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Original transcript (Japanese)

田島麻衣子さん。 これ下がって、大きな病気になった時には、破滅的支出になるかもしれない制度でいいのかと 思うんですけれども、受け止めいかがですか、厚労大臣。 武見敬三厚生労働大臣。 はい、あの、今回の高額療養費の見直しは、ええ、先ほども答弁ありましたが、あの、医療費 の伸びに応じた見直し、あるいは所得に応じた負担、ええ、その徹底を図るとともに、 ま、年間上限の創設であったり、年収200万未満の方の、ええ、据え置き、ま、あの、もう 言わずもがなでございますが、ま、そうした経済的負担にも配慮したものでございます。

あの、確かにですね、今回の見直しによる保険料の影響、これ、あの、加入している保険者に よって異なります。 で、これを機械的に算出いたしますと、ま、先ほど答弁がありました通り、平均で加入者1人 当たり、年額で約1400円ということになります。 ただ、これ、あの、ぜひご理解をいただきたいんですが、あの、一般的にですね、ええ、数千 億円規模の改革を実施したとしても、 加入者は1億2000万人いらっしゃいますので、ええ、これを割り算をしますと、保険料の 軽減効果は月額で、ええ、数百円とか、そういったレベルになります。 ま、それだけですね、今、現役世代の保険料負担の抑制ということが言われておりますが、そ れは本当に難しい課題、困難な課題だというふうに思っております。

ええ、その意味では、やはりこうした1つ1つの改革を積み重ね、これをぜひやらせていただ くことによりまして、それが保険料負担の抑制につながるんだと いうことをご理解いただければというふうに思います。 ええ、保険料負担が引き下がることは、あの、目指していただきたいですけれども、本当に現 役の皆さん喜ぶんですかねって思うわけですよ。 もしもの時のことが変わらないんだったらともかく、もしもの時の負担が38%も平均で上が って、 それで、ええ、年間1400円ですか。どっちがいいですかっていうことになると思います。

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