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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 harmful unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal |last=Morgan |first= |init=WKC |author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan |etal=NO |title=Penile plunder |trans-title= |language= |journal=Med J Aust |location= |date=1967-05-27 |volume=1 |issue=21 |article= |page= |pages=1102-3 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan2/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=4226264 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb20892.x |doi= |accessdate=2024-05-22}}</ref> Profit is reaped not only from the practice of [[circumcision ]] itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.

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. Early in hospital [[circumcision]] permits obstetricians to make more money.

The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid. <ref name="jones2022">{{REFdocument |title=FOIA Request sheds new light on AAP's motivations |url=https://www.circumcisionharm.org/images-circharm.org/2022%20FOIA%20Report%20on%20Circumcision%20Ryan%20Jones%20CIAF.pdf |contribution= |last=Jones |first=Ryan |publisher=Circumcision is a Fraud |format=PDF |date=2022-02 |accessdate=2025-05-24}}</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

}}</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" />

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>

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.==Video=====This should be a crime.===<youtube>v=ob4OADNIidc</youtube>===Part Four: The Effects on the Male Soul and Spirit===<youtube>?v=Fo9zBKUNVH0</youtube>

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