A majority of Americans favor Congress discontinuing work on health-care reform and instead considering alternatives with bipartisan support, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll. Only 39 percent of Americans think Congress should continue to try to pass some version of current bill.

The poll was conducted the day after Scott Brown’s election to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, and 72 percent of respondents say Brown’s victory reflects America’s frustrations with Washington.

Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of Republicans (87 percent) favor stopping work on the bill. But notable is that a majority of independents (56 percent) and a not-insignificant number of Democrats (26 percent) also think the bill should tabled.

And in a clear rebuke of President Obama’s decision to make health-care reform the centerpiece of his legislative agenda in his first year in office, a sizeable majority of respondents say that health-care should not be the president’s top priority: 46 percent say it should be subsidiary to other, more pressing concerns, while 19 percent say it should not be a major priority at all.

UPDATE: A Rasmussen poll shows even more opposition to health-care:

Sixty-one percent (61%) of U.S. voters say Congress should drop health care reform and focus on more immediate ways to improve the economy and create jobs.