National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn yesterday named as special assistant to the president for health care policy Brian Blase, who previously worked as a senior research fellow for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. From 2011 through 2015, Blase worked as a senior health care staffer for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Senate Republican Policy Committee. 

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