More than 200 Sacramento County employees and retirees packed the supervisors' chambers Tuesday evening, many passionately asking them to reject a proposal to cut medical and dental benefits for some Sacramento County retirees.

Holding back tears, Kay Ceragioli displayed a plastic bag filled with pill bottles.

"These are the medications I take every day," said Ceragioli, who worked for the county 10 years before she retired in March 2006 to fight breast cancer. She urged the county to continue the benefits. "We are people out here."

For the past 27 years, the county has voted each year to help pay for those benefits. The program pays retirees up to $244 a month for medical expenses and $25 a month for dental care.