thing for the congress to regulate activity, and the congress has broad powers to do so, but what it can t do, the judge said, is to regulate economic inactivity, and that is what happens if someone chooses not to buy health insurance. and the obama administration said that everybody participates in the health care system sooner or later and even if you choose not to buy insurance, you will be hit by a car or get old, and ultimately, you are in the health care system, so the government argued not being a part of it, but the judge rejected the argument and i m quoting from the decision, this dispute is not about regulating the business of insurance, but about an individual s right to choose to participate, and he said that congress does not have the power to force somebody to buy insurance. there was a backup argument in the obama administration that there was a tax, because if you don t buy the insurance, you will get taxed, but what the judge said, yes, it is true that congress has ve