The series followed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act through the year, and proved prescient of many of the problems that captured the nation’s headlines after the program’s Oct. 1 launch. Ricardo foretold the furor over canceled insurance policies that the new law deemed substandard, difficulties enrollees might have keeping their doctors, the complicated and problematic signup process and the disparities that would result from the entrenched political opposition to the law in many states.
