Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, said today that the Senate’s healthcare reform legislation is so flawed that it should be killed.

“The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago,” Slaughter wrote in an opinion piece for CNN’s website.

Slaughter argued that while the House bill is far from perfect, the Senate bill’s exclusion of a public option, along with abortion funding restrictions and other measures, make the bill undeserving of a vote.

Specifically, Slaughter said, the Senate bill would charge seniors higher premiums, would fail to nix health insurers’ antitrust exemption and would not go far enough in extending coverage to people in the U.S.

“Supporters of the weak Senate bill say ‘just pass it — any bill is better than no bill,’ ” Slaughter wrote. “I strongly disagree — a conference report is unlikely to sufficiently bridge the gap between these two very different bills.”

Obviously she favors a socialist plan while I prefer a free market approach, but we both agree that the Senate legislation is so horrible that it should be put out of its misery. Or, better yet, put out of our misery. It’s yet more evidence that no one really likes this bill outside of the Senate and White House. Its very name is spit upon by individuals from across the political spectrum.

Put simply, the legislation sucks. It’s disastrous. We may differ in our reasons as to why it’s disastrous, but there’s a general agreement outside of the Senate chamber that it is disastrous. Congress would please no one, left or right, by passing this bill. It’s time to kill this legislation.

Contact your representative. And your senator.