This paper compares public health care with private health insurance in an overlapping generations endogenous growth model. It is shown that economic growth is higher when there is a private health insurance.

List of contributors -- 1. Introduction / Bernardo Bortolotti and Gianluca Fiorentini -- Pt. I. Organized interests produce legislation. 2. Political institutions as screening devices / Gianluigi Galeotti ; 3. Electoral rules and interest groups: the mix of direct and indirect taxation /...