ALBANY — Health care workers, leaders and advocates swarmed the state Capitol Tuesday to urge lawmakers to restore $550 million in funds that were slashed from the governor's original budget proposal to help plug a larger-than-expected revenue shortfall.
Chanting "Don't cut health care" and holding signs that said "Some cuts never heal," hundreds of health care workers converged at the Empire State Plaza from all around the state and then marched to the Capitol, packing Albany's normally busy downtown with off-duty ambulances, buses and foot traffic.