Chris McKenna reports at The Fray that New York’s entire congressional delegation -- Republicans and Democrats -- rarely agree on any issue. But a Trump administration proposal to cut $53 million a year in Medicare payments to New York and some other states has them all united. Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican, and Brian Higgins, a Buffalo-area Democrat announced the opposition that also includes Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, and local Democrats Antonio Delgado and Paul Tonko. The proposed change is to what is known as Medicare’s area wage index. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services would cut funding for hospitals in the top quarter of wages and send it instead to those in the lowest quarter, under the proposal. “CMS argues that its proposed changes to AWI seek to help rural hospitals, yet, not one of New York’s rural hospitals – who face the same fiscal challenges as rural hospitals across the nation – would see a benefit from the policy,” said a letter the delegation sent to The Center for Medicare. “Rather, states like New York with many hospitals that have legitimately high wages commensurate with market competition will be forced to transfer hundreds of millions in Medicare funding to a small handful of states.” Read more about this story at The Fray.