Medicare and Medicaid turned 60 years old Wednesday, and central New York activists concerned about recent cuts in the federal programs are using the landmark to call for change.
Balloons and cupcakes festooned Columbus Circle in Syracuse as local activists marked the 60th anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare, which provide medical care to poor and older Americans. Members of local unions, organizations representing retired people and people with disabilities joined to call on the state to fill the funding gap caused by cuts in the recently passed tax and spending bill signed earlier this month by President Trump.
Ed O’Rourke, a senior from Jamesville, calls it a matter of life and death…