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Can Congress regulate "inactivity" (and make Americans buy health insurance)?

On January 31, 2011, federal judge Roger Vinson declared the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.1 Judge Vinson concluded that Congress had no authority to enact one provision of the law that requires uninsured individuals who can afford health insurance to purchase it. Since that provision is the cornerstone of the entire edifice, Vinson opined, the rest of the law also must fall. The states have broad authority to adopt laws that protect the public health and safety. But the powers of Congress are limited to those delegated by the Constitution. The federal government argued that the . . .