“Rucker is a gifted observer-humorist, unleashing a straight-arrow honesty and a vibrant, penetrating wit while probing the most intimate aspects of contemporary life and human behavior…” (Publisher Weekly)
Mr. Rucker lectures widely on the subject of living with disability. He is also a contributing editor to “New Mobility” magazine and the chairman of the Writers With Disabilities Committee at the WGA. He lives in LA with wife, Ann. They have two sons.
A couple of weeks after I first got out of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA, reeling from the ugly truth that I was paralyzed for life, I got a call at eight am one morning from a very nice young lady in patient financial services. Read More
Those of us in Disability-ville who are lucky enough to have comprehensive private insurance, or Medicare backed by private insurance, live in a fantasy world. We have little or no idea what health care really costs. I get these complicated EOB’s (Explanation of Benefits) from my secondary insurer, the Writers Guild Health Fund, and after Medicare and “discounts” weigh in, I am left with co-payments of the magnitude of $6.35 or $11.36. Read More
