The Komeito Party's Health Insurance Association Parliamentary Liaison Council (chaired by Tanigai Masaaki, House of Councillors) and the Health, Labor and Welfare Subcommittee (chaired by Hamaji Masakazu, Member of the House of Representatives) received requests from the Health Insurance Association of Japan and other organisations at the House of Representatives Second Members' Building, calling for the establishment of a sustainable universal health insurance system.