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}}</ref> Infant circumcision is a profit center for many American hospitals so parents are pushed to circumcise. | }}</ref> Infant circumcision is a profit center for many American hospitals so parents are pushed to circumcise. | ||
===Government financial support for non-therapeutic circumcision=== | |||
The United States government provides [[financial incentive]] for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] by [[third-party payment]] through numerous government health insurance programs: | |||
* Medicaid | |||
* Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) | |||
* Indian Health Service | |||
* Tricare | |||
* Government employee health insurance | |||
* Medicare | |||
===Incidence of circumcision=== | ===Incidence of circumcision=== | ||