Noam N. Levey is an award-winning national healthcare reporter for the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington, D.C. Over the last decade, he has reported on health reform from more than two dozen states around the country and on global health from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Noam’s stories about the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare issues regularly appear in newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. He has also been published in Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Assn. and Milbank Quarterly. Noam is a frequent speaker on health policy and politics and a regular guest on nationally broadcast public radio programs. He is currently working on a book about health policy innovators who are charting a more hopeful path toward affordable, high-quality care. Prior to joining the Times in 2003, Noam was an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News in Silicon Valley. Noam has a degree in Middle Eastern history from Princeton University.