A New York Daily News editorial sets the stakes for the Empire State’s two Democratic senators:

President Obama is pressing Democrats to ram health care reform through Congress or to give the bill a merciful death. That puts New York’s representatives on the spot to protect this state from taking a monstrous hammering. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and every member of the House delegation must refuse to vote for any legislation that deprives New York of fair Medicaid funding. The working version of the measure – the bill passed by the Senate – would do just that by disqualifying New York from Medicaid support provided to other states . . . Obama has released only the outlines of the legislation he hopes to drive through the Senate on a majority vote. The details of his plan for New York are thus in doubt. Schumer says he’s confident that the specifics, when put down on paper, will hold the state harmless. They had better.