Anyone else see the irony—or tragedy—in Rep. Barney Frank's latest grab at national headlines?

The retiring Massachusetts lefty (is that redundant?) told New York magazine in an interview that, in hindsight, passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might have been a mistake.

"I think we paid a terrible price for health care," he told journalist Jason Zengerle. "I would have started with financial reform but certainly not health care."

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