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	'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, harmful, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal		'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, harmful, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing harmful unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal
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	===This should be a crime.===		===This should be a crime.===
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			===Part Four: The Effects on the Male Soul and Spirit===
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	* [[Circumcision industry]]		* [[Circumcision industry]]

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	}}</ref> Circumcision is frequently included as part of the birth package of covered expenses, so [[third-party payment]] is provided. Ryan Jones filed a freedom of information act request and learned that ~~in the eight years from~~ Medicaid paid for 6,260,830 circumcisions at a cost of $537,176,694.<ref name="jones2022" />		}}</ref> Circumcision is frequently included as part of the birth package of covered expenses, so [[third-party payment]] is provided. Ryan Jones filed a freedom of information act request and learned that Medicaid paid for 6,260,830 circumcisions at a cost of $537,176,694.<ref name="jones2022" />

	While 18 states have stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], 32 states still pay for it. Doctors may be driven to promote non-therapeutic circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state. Adler (2011) has argued that such payments are contrary to law.<ref>{{REFjournal		While 18 states have stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], 32 states still pay for it. Doctors may be driven to promote non-therapeutic circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state. Adler (2011) has argued that such payments are contrary to law.<ref>{{REFjournal

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	[https://www.medicaid.gov/ Medicaid] is a medical insurance program for people whose income is below the federal poverty level (FPL}. However, in most states, pregnant women are covered to a variable amount above the FPL.		[https://www.medicaid.gov/ Medicaid] is a medical insurance program for people whose income is below the federal poverty level (FPL}. However, in most states, pregnant women are covered to a variable amount above the FPL.

	The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid.<ref>{{REFdocument		The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid.<ref name="jones2022">{{REFdocument
	\|title=FOIA Request sheds new light on AAP's motivations		\|title=FOIA Request sheds new light on AAP's motivations
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	}}</ref> Circumcision is frequently included as part of the birth package of covered expenses, so third-party payment is provided.		}}</ref> Circumcision is frequently included as part of the birth package of covered expenses, so [[third-party payment]] is provided. Ryan Jones filed a freedom of information act request and learned that in the eight years from Medicaid paid for 6,260,830 circumcisions at a cost of $537,176,694.<ref name="jones2022" />

	While 18 states have stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], 32 states still pay for it. Doctors may be driven to promote non-therapeutic circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state. Adler (2011) has argued that such payments are contrary to law.<ref>{{REFjournal		While 18 states have stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], 32 states still pay for it. Doctors may be driven to promote non-therapeutic circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state. Adler (2011) has argued that such payments are contrary to law.<ref>{{REFjournal

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	[https://www.medicaid.gov/ Medicaid] is a medical insurance program for people whose income is below the federal poverty level (FPL}. However, in most states, pregnant women are covered to a variable amount above the FPL.		[https://www.medicaid.gov/ Medicaid] is a medical insurance program for people whose income is below the federal poverty level (FPL}. However, in most states, pregnant women are covered to a variable amount above the FPL.

	The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid. The percentage of births covered by Medicaid varies by state. It ranges from a low of 20 percent in Vermont to 71 percent in New Mexico.<ref>{{REFweb		The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid.<ref>{{REFdocument
			\|title=FOIA Request sheds new light on AAP's motivations
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			}}</ref> The percentage of births covered by Medicaid varies by state. It ranges from a low of 20 percent in Vermont to 71 percent in New Mexico.<ref>{{REFweb
	\|url=https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/births-financed-by-medicaid/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D		\|url=https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/births-financed-by-medicaid/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
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	Bollinger (2012) estimated that the total annual cost of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to Americans is $3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012"/> He has since updated his estimate of total annual cost in 2020 to be $5,685,000,000 or nearly six billion dollars per year.		Bollinger (2012) estimated that the total annual cost of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to Americans is $3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012"/> He has since updated his estimate of total annual cost in 2020 to be $5,685,000,000 or nearly six billion dollars per year.
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			===This should be a crime.===
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	* [[Circumcision industry]]		* [[Circumcision industry]]

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	==Total annual costs of American circumcision==		==Total annual costs of American circumcision==

	Bollinger (2012) estimated that the total annual cost of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to Americans is $3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012"/>		Bollinger (2012) estimated that the total annual cost of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to Americans is $3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012"/> He has since updated his estimate of total annual cost in 2020 to be $5,685,000,000 or nearly six billion dollars per year.

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	== Profit from harvested foreskins ==		== Profit from harvested foreskins ==
	Foreskins are sold to pharmaceutical companies for stem-cell research, the creation of synthetic [[skin]], and the creation of consumer products. Since the 1980s, private hospitals have been involved in the business of supplying discarded foreskins to private bio-research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies who require human flesh as raw research material.<ref name="hodges1997" /> They also supply foreskins to transnational corporations. Dr. Tania Phillips, professor of dermatology at {{UNI\|Boston University\|BU}} [http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ School of Medicine], insisting foreskin gathering and cultivating is scientifically and technologically "very promising." <ref>Ronald Rosenberg. 19 October 1992: 22-23.</ref>		Foreskins are sold to pharmaceutical companies for stem-cell research, the creation of synthetic [[skin]], and the creation of consumer products. Since the 1980s, private hospitals have been involved in the business of supplying discarded foreskins to private bio-research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies who require human flesh as raw research material.<ref name="hodges1997" /> They also supply foreskins to transnational corporations. Dr. Tania Phillips, professor of dermatology at {{UNI\|Boston University\|BU}} [http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ School of Medicine], insisting [[foreskin]] gathering and cultivating is scientifically and technologically "very promising".<ref>Ronald Rosenberg. 19 October 1992: 22-23.</ref>

	=== Corporate benefactors ===		=== Corporate benefactors ===

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	'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal		'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, harmful, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal
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	1.2 million baby boys are [[circumcised]] a year in the [[United States]] alone. At a dollar per procedure, that is already $1,200,000 a year. The going rate for a circumcision procedure is approximately $1,700 when hospital charges are included, multiplied by 1.2 million, that is approximately $2,040,000,000 a year that circumcision brings in based on the procedure alone.		1.2 million baby boys are [[circumcised]] a year in the [[United States]] alone. At a dollar per procedure, that is already $1,200,000 a year. The going rate for a circumcision procedure is approximately $1,700 when hospital charges are included, multiplied by 1.2 million, that is approximately $2,040,000,000 a year that circumcision brings in based on the procedure alone.

	When a baby boy is to be [[circumcised]], mother and baby remain in hospital for about one-fourth of a day longer,<ref name="mansfield1995" /> so that increases the profit to the hospital.		When a baby boy is to be [[circumcised]], mother and baby remain in hospital for about one-fourth of a day longer,<ref name="mansfield1995" /> so that increases the profit to the hospital. Early in hospital [[circumcision]] permits obstetricians to make more money.

	Bollinger (2012) estimates that the total cost of non-therapeutic male circumcision, including hospital costs, repair of botched circumcisions, treatment of complications, and so on is more than $3 billion per year.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb		Bollinger (2012) estimates that the total cost of non-therapeutic male circumcision, including hospital costs, repair of botched circumcisions, treatment of complications, and so on is more than $3 billion per year.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb