He has written extensively about the economics, politics, and culture of the US health care system, including Bleeding Edge (1998) and Oxymorons (2001) and the medical novel Catching Babies (2011).

His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Health Affairs, JAMA, and other publications.

[6][7][8][9][10] He has served as a Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute,[11] member of the Editorial Board of Health Affairs,[12] and frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal[13] and The Huffington Post.

[21] Kleinke was an early supporter of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s health reform law, based on his public analyses of the principles of market economics, consumer choice and insurer competition built into the law’s structure–ideas denied or overlooked by the President’s political opponents.

Kleinke’s article on these origins in The New York Times, “The Conservative Case for Obamacare”–published five weeks before the re-election of President Obama–generated significant controversy, and his departure from AEI followed three months later.

This industry was in its infancy in the early 1990s when Kleinke and fellow students, alumni and faculty-mentors from The Johns Hopkins University established HCIA, the company that would become Solucient and is now known as Truven Health Analytics.

[23] While a graduate student at Hopkins, Kleinke had been serving as Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard Pratt Health Systems in Towson, Maryland, which at the time, was the largest private psychiatric hospital in the US.

[23][27] In 2004, Kleinke founded and led the Omnimedix Institute, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that created, built and promoted information technologies for giving patients and their families safe and secure access to and control over their own medical data.