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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. American; 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. American; multiplied by 1.2 million, that is approximately $2,040,000,000 a year that circumcision brings in based on the procedure alone. | ||
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>{{REFweb | 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">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Mansfield | |||
|first=Christopher J | |||
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|last2=Hueston | |||
|first2=William J | |||
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|last3=Rudy | |||
|first3=Mary | |||
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|title=Neonatal circumcision: associated factors and length of hospital stay | |||
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|language=English | |||
|journal=J Fam Pract | |||
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|date=1995-10 | |||
|volume=41 | |||
|issue=4 | |||
|pages=370-6 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/mansfield/ | |||
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}}</ref> so that increases the profit to the hospital. | |||
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 | |||
|url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually | |url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually | ||
|title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually | |title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually | ||