Former Baucus Aide at Center of Flap Over Insurer’s Mailings on Health Reform

• By John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 23, 2009, 1:54 p.m.

Jonathan Blum, the administration official at the center of a growing flap over alleged efforts to “muzzle” insurance companies critical of Democratic health care reform efforts, is a former senior aide to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — who originally asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to investigate the companies critical of his bill.