Kill this bill

As a Republican congressman from Trumpcountry Staten Island, Dan Donovan had every reason to support his party’s Frankenstein-monster Obamacare repeal legislation. Instead, Donovan is saying no to a bill that, says a nonpartisan analysis, would cancel health coverage for 24 million Americans — 2.7 million of them New Yorkers. The breaking point: a naked bribe tucked into the measure meant specifically to buy off New York members.

Good for Donovan. Other New York Republicans, like Long Island’s Pete King and Lee Zeldin, should hop aboard his caravan of courage and deep-six the American Health Care Act.

The odious rider, sponsored by upstaters Chris Collins and John Faso, would prohibit Albany from requiring counties to pay a cent towards their own Medicaid expenses.

So much for states’ rights. So much for fiscal sanity.

Once set at 25% of Medicaid, with the state paying 25% and Uncle Sam 50%, the local share has steadily dropped and is now about 13% — coming to $2.3 billion a year. Collins and Faso got House Speaker Paul Ryan to relieve New York localities from paying a penny — while leaving intact the Medicaid payments that New York City makes, an annual $5.4 billion.

It doesn’t get any more brazenly anti-big-city than this.

Collins and Faso want the state to fill the hole. That’s not going to happen, nor should it — because it would mean New York City would foot still more of the bill for upstate.

Which means local hospitals will bleed cash: $15 million from King’s Nassau district, half of that from Southside Hospital. Out at the East End of Suffolk, Zeldin’s constituents will be whacked by $41 million. The districts of upstaters Elise Stefanik would suffer $20 million, Tom Reed $19 million and freshman Claudia Tenney, $28 million.

The two henchmen’s district hospitals would also get hit: $8 million in Collins’ terrain and $17 million in Faso’s.

Even before Collins and Faso did their little ploy, the Obamacare repeal was going to cost this state $4.7 billion. They just made it worse.