 Eli Ginzberg in Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor Published in print: 0000 Published Online: October 0000 ISBN: 0000000000000 eISBN: 0000000000000 Item type: chapter Publisher: Yale University Press DOI: 00.00000/yale/0000000000000.000.0000 Subject: Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility This chapter examines the overall impact of Medicare in the U.S. medical care system. It first provides an overview of the passage of Medicare and then describes how Medicare expanded the financing 