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===Government financial support for non-therapeutic circumcision===
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}}</ref> Infant circumcision is a profit center for many American hospitals so parents are pushed to circumcise.
The United States government provides [[financial incentive]] for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] by [[third-party payment]] through numerous government health insurance programs:
* [https://www.medicare.gov/ Medicare] − Covers persons who have reached 65 years of age.
==Some statisical data==
===Prevalence of circumcision===
Peter Moore (2015) reported that 62 percent of all American males reported being ]]circumcised]],<ref name="moore2015">{{REFweb
|url=https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2015/02/03/younger-americans-circumcision
|title=Young Americans less supportive of circumcision at birth