These individuals may be willing to preserve the option of having
this programme available should they need it in the future.
Suggested solution to (3)
• More generally, there is also the issue of externality or spillover
benefits to other members of the population who are not at current
or future risk of ovarian cancer (that is, men).
• Men may be willing to pledge additional insurance or tax dollars to
cover the ovarian cancer treatment programme either through a
self-interested motivation (that is, wives and daughters at risk) or
through a general humanitarian or altruistic motivation where they
are expressing a statement of value for women more generally.